Where does “Stamm” come from?

Stamm (German) comes from Middle High German stam, from Old High German stam, from Proto-Germanic stamnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-.

Stamm (German): tree trunk, main stem of a plant but never used of thin stalks or twigs

Definitions

  1. tree trunk, main stem of a plant but never used of thin stalks or twigs

Ancestry of “Stamm”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle High Germanstam—
2Old High Germanstam—
3Proto-Germanicstamnaz—
4Proto-Indo-European*steh₂-—

Words derived from “Stamm”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- →