Etymograph

English

screwstem

From screw + stem.

A compound of screw + stem

Middle English screw

English screw

Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- ‘to stand, stay’

Proto-Germanic *stamniz ‘stem, tree stalk’

Proto-West Germanic *stamni

Old English stemn

Middle English stem

English stem

Today it means

noun Any of the gentians in the genus Bartonia.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “screwstem”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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