Where does “stump” come from?

stump (Danish) comes from Middle Low German stump, from Old Saxon *stump, from Proto-West Germanic *stump, from Proto-Germanic stumpaz — stump.

stump (Danish): blunt; obtuse; stump, piece

Definitions

  1. blunt; obtuse; stump, piece

Ancestry of “stump”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Low Germanstumpstump
2Old Saxon*stump—
3Proto-West Germanic*stumpblunt, not sharp
4Proto-Germanicstumpazstump

Words derived from “stump”

Every word from Proto-Germanic stumpaz →Every word from Proto-West Germanic *stump →Every word from Old Saxon *stump →