English
Pomeranian
From Pomerania + -an.
The story
Through Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (‘off’), distant doublet of pomegranate, whose first element is from Latin pomum, which itself is from Proto-Italic *poomos (‘taken off > fruit’).
Today it means
adj Of, from or relating to Pomerania, a historic region split between the German states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Brandenburg and the Pomeranian Voivodeship, West Pomeranian Voivodeship and Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship of Poland.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Pomeranian