Etymology

stirrer

stir·rer
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Today it means: A device used to stir. (Cardinal types include wood or plastic strips (for beverages) and magnetic objects that react to a spinning magnet nearby (for chemistry beakers). Full definition →

English stir ← Middle English stiren ← Old English styrian
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*(s)twerH-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*(s)twr̥H-yé-ti?
  3. Proto-Germanic*sturjaną
  4. Proto-West Germanic*sturjan
  5. Old Englishstyrian
  6. Middle Englishstiren
  7. Englishstir
  8. English todaystirrer

From stir + -er.

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