Where words came from: "human", "(bride)groom"

[Proto-Indo-European]

ǵʰmṓ : earthling
From *dʰéǵʰōm (earth)

It has evolved into the following words:

[Celtic]

Proto-Celtic: *gdonyos (person)

This evolved into:
Welsh: dyn (folk, man, person)

[Italic]

Proto-Italic > Latin:

*hemō (man) > homō (man)

This evolved into:
Portuguese: homem (mankind, man)
Spanish: hombre (man)
French: homme (man), on (one, people, you, someone)
Italian: uomo (man)

[Germanic]

Proto-Germanic: *gumô (man)

This evolved into:
English: groom, bridegroom
Dutch: bruidegom (bridegroom)
German: der Bräutigam (bridegroom)
Swedish: en brudgum (bridegroom)

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