Where does “stilted” come from?

Stilted comes from Old English -od, from Proto-Germanic -ōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European -eh₂tos, ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European past participle suffix -tós.

stilted (English): Making use of or possessing a stilt or stilts, or...

Definitions

  1. Making use of or possessing a stilt or stilts, or...

Ancestry of “stilted”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1English-edUsed to form past tenses of verbs. In...
2Middle English-edAlternative form of -hede
3Old English-edformed into the likeness of, made into, shaped...

Words derived from “stilted”

Every word from Old English -ed →Every word from English -ed →Every word from Middle English -ed →