étape

The story

1. Russian · semantic loan fromэта́п
2. Frankish · derived from*stapul
3. Old Dutch · derived fromstapul
4. Middle Dutch · derived fromstapel“warehouse; market”
5. Old French · derived fromestaple“warehouse; a place where merchants bring their wares to be sold”
6. Middle French · derived fromestappe
7. French · borrowed frométape
8. English todayétape

Borrowed from French étape, from Middle French estappe, from Old French estaple (“warehouse; a place where merchants bring their wares to be sold”), from Middle Dutch stapel (“warehouse; market”), from Old Dutch stapul, from Frankish *stapul. Sense 5 is a semantic loan from Russian эта́п (etáp). More at the doublet staple.

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