Where does “stif” come from?

stif (Middle English) comes from Old English stīf, from Proto-West Germanic stīf, from Proto-Germanic stīfaz, from Proto-Indo-European steypós.

stif (Middle English): Stiff, firm, hard; difficult to move or...

Definitions

  1. Stiff, firm, hard; difficult to move or...

Ancestry of “stif”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old EnglishstīfStiff, firm, hard
2Proto-West Germanicstīfstiff, rigid
3Proto-Germanicstīfazstiff, rigid
4Proto-Indo-Europeansteypós—

Words derived from “stif”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European steypós →Every word from Proto-Germanic stīfaz →Every word from Proto-West Germanic stīf →