From Middle English ramsons, ramsens, rampsons, ramesones, ramsouns, plural of Middle English ramson, ramsen, reinterpreted as a singular form, from Old English hramsan, nominative plural of Old English hramsa, from Proto-West Germanic *hramusō, from Proto-Germanic *hramusô, from Proto-Indo-European *kremus-, *kermus-.
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