Unscramble

s 1 t 1 e 1 p 3 m 3 o 1 t 1 h 4 e 1 r 1

10 letters · 17 points in Scrabble

Meaning

noun the wife of your father by a subsequent marriage

originFrom Middle English stepmoder, from Old English stēopmōdor, from Proto-Germanic *steupamōdēr (“stepmother”), corresponding to step- + mother. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Stäifmuur (“stepmother”), Dutch stiefmoeder (“stepmother”), German Low German Steevmoder (“stepmother”), German Stiefmutter (“stepmother”), Danish stedmor (“stepmother”), Swedish styvmor (“stepmother”), Icelandic stjúpmóðir…

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0

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