Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A period of time spent doing or being something; a spell. · Limit; bound; restraint; extent. · Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted. · A part of the race between two consecutive pit stops.
To stop (an action); cease, desist. · To stop speaking or talking (of a subject). · To be sparing or mean. · To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.
From Middle English stinten, from Old English styntan (“to make blunt”) and *stintan (attested in āstintan (“to make dull, stint, assuage”)), from Proto-West Germanic *stuntijan, from Proto-Germanic *stuntijaną and Proto-Germanic *stintaną (“to make short”), probably influenced in some senses by cognate Old Norse *stynta, stytta (“to make short, shorten”).
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- Inherited-form mentionstintenenm
- Inherited-form mentionstyntanang · to make blunt
- Inherited-form mention*stuntijangmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*stuntijanągem-pro
- Inherited-form mention*stintanągem-pro · to make short
- Cognate mention*styntanon
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