Etymology

stickman

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Today it means: A simple drawing of a man with lines to represent limbs and torso. Full definition →

Middle English man ← Old English mann ← Proto-West Germanic *mann
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*(s)teyg-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*stignéh₂-
  3. Proto-Germanic*stikkōną
  4. Proto-Germanic*stikkô
  5. Proto-West Germanic*stikkō
  6. Old Englishsticca
  7. Middle Englishstikke
  8. Englishstick
  9. Proto-Indo-European*mon-
  10. Proto-Germanic*mann-
  11. Proto-West Germanic*mann
  12. Old Englishmann
  13. Middle Englishman
  14. English todaystickman

From stick + -man.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.