stink

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · inherited from*stengʷ-
2. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*stinkwaną
3. Old English · inherited fromstincan
4. Middle English · inherited fromstinken
5. English todaystink

From Middle English stinken, from Old English stincan, from Proto-Germanic *stinkwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *stengʷ-, *stegʷ- (“to push, thrust, strike”). Cognate with West Frisian stjonke (“to stink”), Dutch stinken (“to stink”), German stinken (“to stink”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk stinke (“to stink”), Swedish stinka (“to stink”), Icelandic stökkva (“to spring, leap, jump”). Compare typologically Russian рази́ть (razítʹ).

Words from the same roots