Where does “strunt” come from?

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

strunt (Swedish): nonsense; that which is not worth paying...

Definitions

  1. nonsense; that which is not worth paying...

Ancestry of “strunt”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Low Germanstrunt—
2Old Saxonstrunt—
3Proto-West Germanicstruntdirt, filth; dung
4Proto-Indo-Europeanster-sterile, infertile

Words derived from “strunt”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European ster- →Every word from Proto-West Germanic strunt →Every word from Old Saxon strunt →
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