Where does “storehouse” come from?
Storehouse derives from English store and house, with house tracing to Middle English hus and Proto-Indo-European steh₂-, meaning to stand or place.
storehouse (English): A building for keeping goods of any kind,...
Definitions
- A building for keeping goods of any kind,...
Ancestry of “storehouse”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | store | A place where items may be accumulated or... |
| 2 | Middle English | store | supplies, provisions; livestock, farm animals;... |
| 3 | Old French | estor | battle; combat |
| 4 | Frankish | sturm | storm, commotion, battle; storm |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | sturmaz | storm |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)twer- | to rotate, swirl, twirl, move around; to turn... |