The story
- Old English · inherited fromstundmǣlum“at times”
- Middle English · inherited fromstoundmele
- English todaystoundmeal
From Middle English stoundmele, stoundemele, from Old English stundmǣlum (“at times”), from stund (“stound, space of time”) + mǣlum, dative plural of mǣl (“a time”), equivalent to stound + -meal. More at stound, meal.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.