Etymology

stubble

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Today it means: Short, coarse hair, especially on a man’s face. Full definition →

Middle English stuble ← Anglo-Norman stuble ← Old French estoble
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromstipula“stalk, straw”
  2. Old French · derived fromestoble
  3. Anglo-Norman · derived fromstuble
  4. Middle English · inherited fromstuble
  5. English todaystubble

From Middle English stuble, from Anglo-Norman stuble, estuble, from Old French estoble, esteule (whence Modern French éteule), from Latin stipula (“stalk, straw”). Cognate with Dutch stoppel, Central German Stoppel, Upper German Stupfel. Doublet of stipule.

Words from the same roots

Latinstipula all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.