Where does “stouck” come from?

stouck (Yola) comes from Middle English stok, from Old English stocc, from Proto-West Germanic *stokk — stick, post.

stouck (Yola): fool, stock, blockhead

Definitions

  1. fool, stock, blockhead

Ancestry of “stouck”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishstoktrunk of a living tree
2Old Englishstoccstock, stump; log; stake, post; a post to which a...
3Proto-West Germanic*stokkstick, post
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