Where does “stirps” come from?

stirps (Latin) comes from Proto-Indo-European ster- — sterile, infertile.

stirps (Latin): rootstock; the lowest part of the trunk of a...

Definitions

  1. rootstock; the lowest part of the trunk of a...

Ancestry of “stirps”, step by step

stirps traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-Indo-European ster-

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-Europeanster-sterile, infertile

via Proto-Indo-European sterp

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-Europeansterp

Words derived from “stirps

Every word from Proto-Indo-European ster-