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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
An iterative to *stikaną (“to stick”).[1] The semantic shift from "stick" to "stop" may be via "to stick" > "to stick many things into one place and get said place stuck" > "to be stuck, stopped" > "to stop".
Pronunciation
Verb
*stukkōną
- to stick
- to stop, halt
Inflection
Descendants
References
- ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*stuk(k)ōn-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 487