Storm! That should be fun, right?
Storm comes from the Old English word storm…which has the same meaning as we have. Sometimes they don’t
even try to change things. Anyway! Before that, it comes from the Proto Germanic sturmaz, still meaning storm, and the
Proto Indo European stur-mo-, which comes from the word stwer, turn or whirl (and which is also
the ancestor of the word stir). Interesting
how some words hardly change over thousands of years, and others like quit
people can’t make up their minds on how to use.
Sources
Tony Jebson’s page on the
Origins of Old English
University of Texas at Austin
Linguistic Research Center
love your theme of the history of words!
ReplyDeleterave is one of my favorite words and reminds me of alice in wonderland - she's stark raving mad!!
one of my students' name is Storm Quick! he's as unique as his name =)
happy a to z-ing!
Not even the winds of time could change it...
ReplyDeleteLet the storm rage on!
ReplyDeleteAnd the cold never bothered me anyway. :)
I recall the more recent Germanic version used in the term sturm und drang. So sturmaz is where it comes from...
ReplyDeleteI wonder if the word has anything to do with the sound of thunder.
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting how it didn't change from the Old English word when so many of them have. I find it very interesting to see how even the older versions aren't too dissimilar, though stwer is a little different.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if words relating to the natural world change less? Just hypothesizing...
ReplyDeleteSo the storm brewed a storm!
ReplyDeleteI knew a Stormy once. Sweet girl.
ReplyDeleteSturmo might be a nice name. I have a villain who it might fit...
Yes, some words change so much while others don't.
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