Etymology

stringify

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Today it means: To convert to a textual representation. Full definition →

Proto-Italic *θakos ← Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- ← English string
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The story

  1. Englishstring
  2. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
  3. Proto-Italic*θakos
  4. English todaystringify

From string + -ify.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.