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Come comes from Middle English comen ‘to come’, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷémt ‘to step’, and ultimately from *gʷem-.

1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*gʷem-¹‘to come’reconstructed
2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*gʷémt¹‘to step’reconstructed
3. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*kwemaną¹‘to come’reconstructed
4. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*kweman¹‘to come’reconstructed
5. Old Englishc. 450–1150cuman¹‘to come’
6. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500comen¹‘to come’
7. Englishearliest quotation c. 1595–1596come¹

1. ¹ Wiktionary, English come
2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: c. 1595–1596, William Shakespeare, Loues Labour’s Lost: “How come you thus estranged?”.