Where does “stump” come from?

stump (Middle High German) comes from Old High German stumph, from Proto-West Germanic *stump, from Proto-Germanic stumpaz — stump.

Ancestry of “stump”, step by step

stump traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Old High German stumph

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old High Germanstumphstump
2Proto-West Germanic*stumpblunt, not sharp
3Proto-Germanicstumpazstump

via Old High German stumpf

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old High Germanstumpf—

Words derived from “stump”

Every word from Proto-Germanic stumpaz →Every word from Proto-West Germanic *stump →Every word from Old High German stumph →