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Where does welcome come from?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

"Welcome" in modern-day English comes from the Old English word "wilcuma", which literally meant well-come (as in, may you have arrived here well). This in turn came from the Old Norse "velkominn", meaning the same thing (vel + kominn in Old Norse was "well + come").

Though Old English and Old Norse are Anglo-Saxon languages, the same sort of idea appears in the Romance languages as well. For example, in Spanish it is "bienvenido" (bien = well, venido = come), French "bienvenue" (bien+venue), Italian "benvenuto" (ben+venuto), all meaning "well come".

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15y ago

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