stripling
English
/ˈstɹɪplɪŋ/
noun
Definitions
- (archaic) A youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad. .
- (horticulture) A seedling with most of the leaves strip stripped off.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English stripling (a youth, a child, an adolescent) inherited from Old English *strēpan inherited from *straupijan inherited from Proto-Germanic *straupijaną (pluck, wipe, strip) derived from Proto-Indo-European *strew- (strew, spread, spread out, scatter, spread around) suffix from English strip (narrow piece, long) root from Proto-Indo-European *strew- (strew, spread, spread out, scatter, spread around).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*strew-
Gloss
strew, spread, spread out, scatter, spread around
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- airstrip English
- antistrip English
- constructible English
- constructional English
- constructionism English
- constructive English
- constructivism English
- constructivist English
- coverstrip English
- destruct English
- destructible English
- destructively English
- destructiveness English
- destructivity English
- devil strip English
- dragstrip English
- filmstrip English
- immunostrip English
- interstrip English
- lightstrip English
- microstrip English
- multistrip English
- nanostrip English
- obstruct English
- outstrip English
- ovistrip English
- restrip English
- strip English
- strip bar English
- strip party English
- stripboard English
- stripdown English
- stripleaf English
- stripless English
- striplight English
- striplike English
- stripline English
- striploin English
- strippable English
- stripper English
- strippery English
- strippest English
- strippet English
- strippeth English
- strippy English
- stript English
- striptease English
- stripwise English
- tearstrip English
- toolstrip English
- tristrip English
- unstrip English
- weatherstrip English
- constructio Latin
- constructus Latin
- construere Latin
- construo Latin
- cōnstructiō Latin
- destructio Latin
- destructio, dēstructiōnem, dēstructiō Latin
- destructivus Latin
- destruo Latin
- dēstruō Latin
- instrumentalis Latin
- obstructio Latin
- strava Latin
- strues Latin
- strip Dutch, Flemish
- *strew- Proto-Indo-European
- strippe Norwegian Bokmål
- *straupijaną Proto-Germanic
- *strawjaną Proto-Germanic
- *streuną Proto-Germanic
- *streupaną Proto-Germanic
- *strēpan Old English
- strȳnd Old English
- misconstruen Middle English
- stripling Middle English
- stropen Middle Dutch
- *straupijan gmw-pro
- *strowō Proto-Italic
- стройи Old East Slavic
- strip
- stript
- restrip
- unstrip
- strippy
- ovistrip
- destruct
- strippet
- outstrip
- tristrip
- airstrip
- stripper
- obstruct
- strip bar
- stripleaf
- striplike
- strippery
- dragstrip
- nanostrip
- stripwise
- antistrip
- stripline
- tearstrip
- filmstrip
- stripless
- strippest
- striploin
- stripdown
- strippeth
- toolstrip
- multistrip
- interstrip
- strippable
- coverstrip
- lightstrip
- striptease
- striplight
- stripboard
- microstrip
- immunostrip
- devil strip
- strip party
- weatherstrip
- constructive
- destructible
- destructively
- destructivity
- constructible
- constructivism
- constructional
- constructivist
- constructionism
- destructiveness