Where does “Stow” come from?

Stow (Plautdietsch) comes from German stōve, from Old Saxon *stova, from Proto-West Germanic *stobu.

Stow (Plautdietsch): room, chamber

Definitions

  1. room, chamber

Ancestry of “Stow”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Germanstōve—
2Old Saxon*stova—
3Proto-West Germanic*stobu—
Every word from Proto-West Germanic *stobu →Every word from Old Saxon *stova →Every word from German stōve →