The story
- Middle Dutch · derived fromstoken“to stoke, incite”
- Middle Dutch · derived fromstoker“stoker”
- English todaystoker
From Middle Dutch stoker (“stoker”), from Middle Dutch stoken (“to stoke, incite”, literally “to poke, jab, thrust”), ultimately equivalent to stoke + -er. More at stoke. Compare typologically Russian кочега́р (kočegár) (akin to кочерга́ (kočergá, “poker”)).
Words from the same roots
Middle Dutchstoken all →
stoke
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.