It is a word related to detention, to stopping a situation or movement. It is used as a verb or noun, and its close origin is in Old English stoppian ("stop, close") although it surely has an earlier origin as there are many similar words in other languages such as Germanic, Frisian, Danish, Icelandic, etc. . .
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