Etymograph

English

stopword

From stop + word.

A compound of stop + word

Proto-West Germanic *stoppōn ‘to stop’

Old English stoppian ‘to stop’

Middle English stoppen ‘to stop’

English stop

Proto-Indo-European *werh₁- ‘to say’

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Proto-Germanic *wurdą

Proto-West Germanic *word

Old English word

Middle English word ‘a word’

English word

Today it means

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Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “stopword”. 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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