Etymology

stampede

stam·pede
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Today it means: A wild, headlong running away or scamper of a number of animals, usually caused by fright. Full definition →

Mexican Spanish estampida ← Spanish estampida ← Old Occitan estampida
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*stembʰ-“to trample down”
  2. Proto-Germanic · derived from*stampōną“to compress, squeeze; to stamp”
  3. Gothic · derived from*𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌼𐍀𐌾𐌰𐌽
  4. Old Occitan · derived fromestampida
  5. Spanish · derived fromestampida
  6. Mexican Spanish · derived fromestampida“a stampede”
  7. English todaystampede

The noun is derived from Mexican Spanish estampida (“a stampede”), from Spanish estampida, estampido (“a bang, a crack (sound)”), from Old Occitan estampida, from Gothic *𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌼𐍀𐌾𐌰𐌽 (*stampjan), from Proto-Germanic *stampōną (“to compress, squeeze; to stamp”), from Proto-Indo-European *stembʰ- (“to trample down”). The verb is derived from the noun.

Words from the same roots

Proto-Germanic*stampōną all →

stampstempelÉtampes

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