Source etymology 1 · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace. · A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a rung of a ladder. · The part of a spade, digging stick or similar tool that a digger's foot rests against and presses on when digging; an ear, a foot-rest. · The button joining a glass's stem to its foot.
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *stapiz Proto-Germanic *stappōnąbf. Proto-Germanic *stapjaną Proto-West Germanic *stappjan Old English stæppan Middle English steppen English step From Middle English steppen, from Old English steppan (“to step, go, proceed, advance”), stepe (“step”), from Proto-West Germanic *stappjan, from Proto-Germanic *stapjaną (“to step”), *stapiz (“step”), from Proto-Indo-European *stebʰ- (“to support, stomp, curse, be amazed”). Cognate with West Frisian stappe (“to step”), North Frisian stape (“to walk, trudge”), Dutch stappen (“to step, walk”), Walloon steper (“to walk away, leave”), German stapfen (“to trudge, stomp, plod”) and further to Slavic Polish stąpać (“to stomp, stamp, step, tread”), Russian ступать (stupatʹ) and Polish stopień (“step, stair, rung, degree”), Russian степень (stepenʹ). Related to stamp, stomp.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionsteppenenm
- Inherited-form mentionsteppanang
- Inherited-form mention*stappjangmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*stapjanągem-pro
- Derivation mention*stebʰ-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionstappefy
- Cognate mentionstapefrr
- Cognate mentionstappennl
- Cognate mentionsteperwa
- Cognate mentionstapfende
- Cognate mentionstąpaćpl
- Cognate mentionступатьru
- Cognate mentionstopieńpl
- Cognate mentionстепеньru
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