Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗Tall; big; stout. · Strong; powerful; hardy; robust; sturdy. · Bold; audacious. · Rough in manner; stern; austere; ill-tempered.
A blowing or deposit of dust; dust in motion or at rest; dust in general.
Severely; strongly.
From Middle English store, stoor, stour (“tall, powerful”), from Old English stōr (“tall, great, mighty, strong”), from Proto-West Germanic *stōr, from Proto-Germanic *stōraz, *stōrijaz (“great, big, strong”), from Proto-Indo-European *stā-r-, *stō-r- (“steadfast, firm; standing tall; big, bulky”). Cognates Akin to Scots stour (“tall, large, great, stout”), Saterland Frisian stor (“great, many”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian stor (“large, great”), Icelandic stórr (“large, tall”), Polish stary (“old, ancient”), Albanian stër- (“big, huge”). Compare also stoor, steer, stately.
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