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Where does “stumpf” come from?

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

Ancestry of “stumpf”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old High Germanstumpf—
2Proto-Germanicstumpazstump

Words derived from “stumpf”

  • Stumpf
  • Baumstumpf
Every word from Proto-Germanic stumpaz →