English
Tatum
Tatum comes from Proto-Germanic *taitaz ‘radiant, glad, cheerful, tender’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *doydo-.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*doydo-reconstructed
- Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*taitaz‘radiant, glad, cheerful, tender’reconstructed
- Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*taitreconstructed
- Old Englishc. 450–1150Tāta
- Englishearliest quotation c. 1988Tatum
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*doydo-reconstructed
- Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*taitaz‘radiant, glad, cheerful, tender’reconstructed
- Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*taitreconstructed
- Old Englishc. 450–1150Tāta
- Englishearliest quotation c. 1988Tatum
Earliest quotation: c. 1988, Stuart Dybek, Chopin in Winter: “By the time a letter from Marcy finally came,…”
Every English word from Proto-Indo-European *doydo-
Today it means
name A habitational surname from Old English.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *doydo- / Tatum