English

substub

From sub- + stub.

Formed from sub- + stub

Proto-Indo-European *upó ‘up; from below’

Proto-Italic *supo ‘under’

Latin sub ‘under, beneath, below’

English sub-

Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp- ‘to push, to stick’

Proto-Germanic *stubbaz ‘stump’

Proto-West Germanic *stubb

Old English stybb ‘tree stump’

Middle English stubbe ‘tree stump’

English stub

Today it means

noun A subheading below a stub (stub head) in a table; a stub subordinate to another stub.

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