Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗Stir; bustle; agitation; contention. · A gush of water. · Spray. · A sufficient quantity of yeast for brewing.
To move; stir. · To move actively; keep stirring. · To rise up in clouds, as smoke, dust, etc. · To stir up, as liquor.
From Middle English storen, *sturien, from Old English *storian, variant of styrian (“to stir, move”), from Proto-Germanic *sturōną (“to turn, disturb”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)twer-, *(s)tur- (“to rotate, twirl, swirl, move”). Cognate with Dutch storen (“to disturb”), Middle Low German stören (“to stir”), German stören (“to disturb”), dialectal German sturen (“to poke, root”). See stir.
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