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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

  1. wearing stockings; simple past tense and past...

Ancestry of “stockinged”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishstockingA soft garment, usually knit or woven, worn on...
2English-ingUsed to form gerunds, a type of verbal nouns,...
3Old English-ingForming nouns from verbs, indicating action,...
4Old English-tūn—
5Old Englishtūnenclosure, yard; place; dwelling
6Proto-West Germanictūnfence
7Proto-Germanictūnąfence; enclosure
8Gaulishdunumfort; hill, hillfort
9Proto-Celticdūnomstronghold, rampart
10Proto-Indo-Europeandʰewh₂-smoke; mist, haze

Words derived from “stockinged”

  • unstockinged
  • bestockinged
  • bluestockinged
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