English
linstock
Linstock comes from Dutch lontstok.
- Dutchc. 1500–presentlontstok
- Englishearliest quotation 1598linstock
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Dutchc. 1500–presentlontstok
- Englishearliest quotation 1598linstock
Earliest quotation: 1598, Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Euery Man in His Humour. A Comœdie. […]: “[…] now, sir, (as we were to ascend), their…”
A compound of lont ‘lunt’ + stok ‘stock, stick’
Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- ‘to be sharp, to stab, to goad, to puncture’
Proto-Germanic *stikaną ‘to stick, stab’
Proto-Germanic *stukkaz ‘stick’
Frankish *stokk
Old Dutch stok
Middle Dutch stoc
Dutch stok ‘stock, stick’
The story
Corrupted from luntstock, Dutch lontstok, from lont (‘lunt’) + stok (‘stock, stick’).
Every English word from Dutch lontstok
Today it means
noun A pointed forked staff, shod with iron at the foot, to hold a lighted match for firing cannon.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Dutch lontstok / linstock