Where does “shimstock” come from?
shimstock (English) comes from English stock, from Italian stoccata, from Italian stoccare, from Italian stocco, from Middle Dutch stōken, from Old Dutch stokon, from Proto-Germanic stukōną, from Proto-Indo-European (s)tewg- — to push, to hit.
shimstock (English): Stock (material) suitable for making shims; often in the form of sheets of metal, plastic or wood of various thicknesses, ready to have pieces cut out of them as needed
Definitions
- Stock (material) suitable for making shims; often in the form of sheets of metal, plastic or wood of various thicknesses, ready to have pieces cut out of them as needed
Ancestry of “shimstock”, step by step
shimstock traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English stock
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | stock | A store or supply; The capital raised by a... |
| 2 | Italian | stoccata | hit with a sword, especially a tuck; thrust,... |
| 3 | Italian | stoccare | to stock; to strike or thrust with a tuck or... |
| 4 | Italian | stocco | tuck; A rapier, a sword; corn plant after cobs... |
| 5 | Middle Dutch | stōken | — |
| 6 | Old Dutch | stokon | — |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | stukōną | to push, to thrust |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)tewg- | to push, to hit |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)tew- | to push, to hit |
via English shim
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | shim | A wedge; A thin piece of material, sometimes... |
| 2 | English | she | The female person or animal previously mentioned... |
| 3 | Middle English | sche | Third-person singular feminine pronoun: she; It;... |
| 4 | Old English | hēo | she |
| 5 | Germanic | *hiju | — |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | hijō | she; nominative singular feminine of *hiz |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe- | demonstrative particle; here; this, here |