Etymology

shtum

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Today it means: Silent; speechless; dumb. Full definition →

Yiddish שטום (shtum) ← Middle High German stum ← Old High German stum
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic*stummaz
  2. Proto-West Germanic*stumm
  3. Old High Germanstum
  4. Middle High Germanstum
  5. Yiddishשטום (shtum)
  6. English todayshtum

Borrowed from Yiddish שטום (shtum, “mute, dumb, voiceless”), from Middle High German stum, from Old High German stum, from Proto-West Germanic *stumm. Cognate with German stumm, Dutch stom, Swedish stum. Doublet of stum.

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