Where does “stinkingness” come from?
stinkingness (English) comes from English stinking, from Middle English stynkynge, from Middle English stynken, from Old English stincan, from Proto-West Germanic *stinkwan, from Proto-Germanic stinkwaną, from Proto-Indo-European stengʷ- — to push.
stinkingness (English): The quality of being stinking
Definitions
- The quality of being stinking
Ancestry of “stinkingness”, step by step
stinkingness traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English stinking
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | stinking | Having a pungent smell; Very bad and undesirable;... |
| 2 | Middle English | stynkynge | The emission of a foul odour; A bad smell;... |
| 3 | Middle English | stynken | To emit a smell or stench; to stink; To be... |
| 4 | Old English | stincan | to smell; to stink |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | *stinkwan | to stink |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | stinkwaną | to hit; thrust; clash; to emit a smell; stink |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | stengʷ- | to push |
via English Ness
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Ness | An Ulster princess and the mother of Conchobar mac Nessa and Findchoem in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology. Daughter of Eochaid Sálbuide. Also the mother of Cormac Cond Longas by incest with Conchobar mac Nessa |
| 2 | Middle English | nesse | — |
| 3 | Old English | næs | not, not at all; not; first/third-person singular... |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | nasją | foothill; headland; cape |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | néh₂s | nose |