The story
- Middle High German · derived fromstickel“hill, slope”
- English todayStickel
* As a German surname, from Middle High German stickel (“hill, slope”), itself from the root of stickle (“steep, high”). * Also as a German surname, from Middle High German stickel (“spine, prickle”), also related to sense 1 of the above.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.