Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To fasten, support, defend, or delineate with stakes. · To pierce or wound with a stake. · To put at risk upon success in competition, or upon a future contingency. · To provide (another) with money in order to engage in an activity as betting or a business venture.
A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a marker or a support or stay. · A piece of wood driven in the ground, placed in the middle of the court, that is used as the finishing point after scoring 12 hoops in croquet. · A stick or similar object (e.g., steel channel or angle stock) inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, flat car, flatbed trailer, or the like, to prevent goods from falling off; often connected in a grid forming a stakebody. · The piece of timber to which a person condemned to death was affixed to be burned.
From Middle English stake, from Old English staca (“pin, tack, stake”), from Proto-West Germanic *stakō, from Proto-Germanic *stakô (“stake”), from Proto-Indo-European *stog-, *steg- (“stake”). Cognate with Scots stak, staik, Saterland Frisian Stak, West Frisian staak, Dutch staak, Low German Stake, Norwegian stake, Spanish estaca.
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- Root classification mention*(s)teg- (pole)ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionstakeenm
- Inherited-form mentionstacaang · pin, tack, stake
- Inherited-form mention*stakōgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*stakôgem-pro · stake
- Derivation mention*stog-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionstaksco
- Cognate mentionStakstq
- Cognate mentionstaakfy
- Cognate mentionstaaknl
- Cognate mentionStakends
- Cognate mentionstakeno
- Cognate mentionestacaes
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