Storm! That should be fun, right?
Storm comes from the Old English word storm…which has the same meaning as we have. Sometimes they don’t
even try to change things. Anyway! Before that, it comes from the Proto Germanic sturmaz, still meaning storm, and the
Proto Indo European stur-mo-, which comes from the word stwer, turn or whirl (and which is also
the ancestor of the word stir). Interesting
how some words hardly change over thousands of years, and others like quit
people can’t make up their minds on how to use.
Sources
Tony Jebson’s page on the
Origins of Old English
University of Texas at Austin
Linguistic Research Center