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Where does “strunt” come from?

strunt (Old Saxon) comes from Proto-West Germanic strunt, from Proto-Indo-European ster- — sterile, infertile.

Ancestry of “strunt”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-West Germanicstruntdirt, filth; dung
2Proto-Indo-Europeanster-sterile, infertile

Words derived from “strunt”

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