Etymology

stopper

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Today it means: Someone or something that stops something. Full definition →

English stop ← Middle English stoppen ← Old English stoppian
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The story

  1. Proto-West Germanic*stoppōn
  2. Old Englishstoppian
  3. Middle Englishstoppen
  4. Englishstop
  5. English todaystopper

From stop + -er.

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