Where does “stiken” come from?

stiken (Middle English) comes from Old English stician, from Proto-West Germanic *stikkōn, from Proto-Germanic *stikkōną — to stick, fix.

stiken (Middle English): to stick, pierce, stab, remain embedded, be...

Definitions

  1. to stick, pierce, stab, remain embedded, be...

Ancestry of “stiken”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Englishsticianto pierce, to stab, to prick, to stick; to remain...
2Proto-West Germanic*stikkōn—
3Proto-Germanic*stikkōnąto stick, fix
Every word from Proto-Germanic *stikkōną →Every word from Proto-West Germanic *stikkōn →Every word from Old English stician →
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