Etymology

stunlock

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Today it means: To render (a character) unable to move or react by repeatedly hitting them and keeping them in a stunned state. Full definition →

English lock ← Middle English lok ← Old English loc
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The story

  1. Englishstun
  2. Proto-Indo-European*lewg-
  3. Proto-Germanic*luką
  4. Proto-West Germanic*lok
  5. Old Englishloc
  6. Middle Englishlok
  7. Englishlock
  8. English todaystunlock

From stun + lock.

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