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Where does “stick” come from?

stick (Chinook Jargon) comes from English stick, from Middle English stikke, from Old English sticca, from Proto-West Germanic *stikkō.

stick (Chinook Jargon): stick; wood, firewood; tree, forest

Definitions

  1. stick; wood, firewood; tree, forest

Ancestry of “stick”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishstickAn elongated piece of wood or similar material,...
2Middle Englishstikketwig, branch; kindling, twigs used as a...
3Old Englishsticcastick
4Proto-West Germanic*stikkō—
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