Where does “stockinged” come from?
Stockinged derives from English stocking, which comes from English stock, from Italian stoccata, ultimately from Latin -ata and -are.
stockinged (English): wearing stockings; simple past tense and past...
Definitions
- wearing stockings; simple past tense and past...
Ancestry of “stockinged”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | stocking | A soft garment, usually knit or woven, worn on... |
| 2 | English | -ing | Used to form gerunds, a type of verbal nouns,... |
| 3 | Old English | -ing | Forming nouns from verbs, indicating action,... |
| 4 | Old English | -tūn | — |
| 5 | Old English | tūn | enclosure, yard; place; dwelling |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | tūn | fence |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | tūną | fence; enclosure |
| 8 | Gaulish | dunum | fort; hill, hillfort |
| 9 | Proto-Celtic | dūnom | stronghold, rampart |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰewh₂- | smoke; mist, haze |
Words derived from “stockinged”