Etymology

Armistead

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Old French eremite ← Old English stede
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The story

  1. Old English · inherited fromstede“place”
  2. Old French · derived fromeremite“hermit”
  3. English todayArmistead

"Dweller of the hermitage", from Old French eremite (“hermit”) + Old English stede (“place”).

Words from the same roots

Old Frencheremite all →

hermit

Old Englishstede all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.