Etymology

stemmer

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Today it means: Software used to produce the stem from the inflected form of words. Full definition →

English stem ← Middle English stemme ← Old English stemn
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*steh₂-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*stéh₂mn̥
  3. Proto-Indo-European*sth₂mnís
  4. Proto-Germanic*stamniz
  5. Proto-West Germanic*stamni
  6. Old Englishstemn
  7. Middle Englishstemme
  8. Englishstem
  9. English todaystemmer

From stem + -er.

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