Etymograph

English

resume

Resume comes from Middle French resumer ‘to resume (to continue with a task (etc.) one…’, from Latin sūmō ‘to take’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁em-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₁em-‘to take’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*emō‘to take’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsūmōas sumere‘to take’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEresumere
  5. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600resumer‘to resume (to continue with a task (etc.) one had stopped)’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1748resume

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₁em-‘to take’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*emō‘to take’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsūmōas sumere‘to take’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEresumere
  5. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600resumer‘to resume (to continue with a task (etc.) one had stopped)’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1748resume

Earliest quotation: 1748, Samuel Richardson, Letter XXVIII: “As to the advice you give, to resume my…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *h₁em- ‘to take’

exempt, pomade, pommel, 57 more

through Proto-Italic *emō ‘to take’

premium, ransom, exemption, redemption, redeem, preemption, emptor, 48 more

through Latin sūmō ‘to take’

consumer, assume, assumption, consume, sumptuous, résumé, consumable, overconsumption, 33 more

Another origin of resume

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₁em-‘to take’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₁émetireconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*emō‘to take’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEemō‘to buy, purchase’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsūmō‘to take, take up, catch, assume, seize, claim, arrogate’
  6. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEresumoas resūmere‘to take back’
  7. Frenchc. 1600–presentrésumer‘to summarize’
  8. French, derivedc. 1600–presentrésumépast participle of résumer
  9. Englishtodayresume

Today it means

verb To take back possession of (something)

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *h₁em- / resume

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