  Recent numerical results [Gonzalez $\textit{et al.}$, Phys. Rev. Lett.
$\textbf{122}$, 017201 (2019); Shimada $\textit{et al.}$, J. Phys. Conf. Ser.
$\textbf{969}$, 012126 (2018)] point to the existence of a partial-disorder
ground state for a spin-1/2 antiferromagnet on the stuffed honeycomb lattice,
with 2/3 of the local moments ordering in an antiferromagnetic N\'eel pattern,
while the remaining 1/3 of the sites display short-range correlations only,
akin to a quantum spin liquid. We derive an effective model for this disordered
subsystem, by integrating out fluctuations of the ordered local moments, which
yield couplings in a formal $1/S$ expansion, with $S$ being the spin amplitude.
The result is an effective triangular-lattice XXZ model, with planar
ferromagnetic order for large $S$ and a stripe-ordered Ising ground state for
small $S$, the latter being the result of frustrated Ising interactions. Within
the semiclassical analysis, the transition point between the two orders is
located at $S_c=0.646$, being very close to the relevant case $S=1/2$. Near
$S=S_c$ quantum fluctuations tend to destabilize magnetic order. We conjecture
that this applies to $S=1/2$, thus explaining the observed partial-disorder
state.
