Where does “stam” come from?

stam (Middle Dutch) comes from Old Dutch stam, from Proto-West Germanic *stamni, from Proto-Germanic stamniz, from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-.

Ancestry of “stam”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Dutchstam—
2Proto-West Germanic*stamni—
3Proto-Germanicstamnizstem, tree stalk
4Proto-Indo-European*steh₂-—

Words derived from “stam”

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