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- Proto-Germanic · inherited from*strīdaną
- Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*strīdan
- Old English · inherited fromstrīdan
- Middle English · inherited fromstriden
- English todaystriddle
Frequentative of Middle English striden (whence modern English stride), from Old English strīdan, from Proto-West Germanic *strīdan, from Proto-Germanic *strīdaną. Equivalent to stride + -le (frequentative suffix).
Words from the same roots
Middle Englishstriden all →
stride
Old Englishstrīdan all →
stride
Proto-West Germanic*strīdan all →
stride
Proto-Germanic*strīdaną all →
stridestriding
First known use, by meaning
- from mid-15th c. To straddle.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.