Etymology

stump

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Today it means: The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb. Full definition →

Middle English stumpe ← Middle Low German stump ← Middle Dutch stomp
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic · derived from*stumpaz“stump, blunt, part cut off”
  2. Proto-West Germanic · derived from*stump
  3. Old Dutch · derived from*stump
  4. Middle Dutch · derived fromstomp
  5. Middle Low German · derived fromstump“stump”
  6. Middle English · inherited fromstumpe
  7. English todaystump

From Middle English stumpe, stompe (“stump”), from or akin to Middle Low German stump (“stump”) or Middle Dutch stomp, from Old Saxon or Old Dutch *stump, from Proto-West Germanic *stump, from Proto-Germanic *stumpaz (“stump, blunt, part cut off”). Displaced native Old English stofn. Cognate with Middle Dutch stomp (“stump”), Old High German stumph (“stump”) (German Stumpf), Old Norse stumpr (“stump”). More at stop.

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