The story
- Old English · inherited fromstybb“a stump, stub”
- Old English · inherited from*stybbor
- Middle English · inherited fromstiborne
- English todaystubborn
From Middle English stiborne, stibourne, stoburn, stoburne, styburne, stiborn, of uncertain origin; one hypothesis is that it may be from Old English *stybbor, from Old English stybb (“a stump, stub”) + -or (adjective-formation suffix, as in bitor, whence English bitter).
Words from the same roots
Old Englishstybb all →
stubStubbington
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.