Where does “stab” come from?

stab (Middle High German) comes from Old High German stab, from Proto-Germanic *stab.

Ancestry of “stab”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old High Germanstab—
2Proto-Germanic*stab—

Words derived from “stab”

Every word from Proto-Germanic *stab →
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