Where does “stilim” come from?

stilim (Tok Pisin) comes from English steal, from Middle English stele, from Old English stela, from Proto-Germanic stelaną, from Proto-Indo-European tsel- — to sneak.

stilim (Tok Pisin): To steal

Definitions

  1. To steal

Ancestry of “stilim”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishstealTo take illegally, or without the owner's...
2Middle Englishstelesteel
3Old Englishstelastalk (of a plant)
4Proto-Germanicstelanąto steal; to sneak
5Proto-Indo-Europeantsel-to sneak
Every word from Proto-Indo-European tsel- →Every word from Proto-Germanic stelaną →Every word from Old English stela →