install

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*stel-
2. Proto-Germanic · derived from*stallaz“place, position”
3. Frankish · derived from*stall“stall, position, place”
4. Medieval Latin · derived fromīnstallō“to install, put in place, establish”
5. Old French · derived frominstaller
6. Middle English · inherited frominstallen
7. English todayinstall

From Middle English installen, from Old French installer, from Medieval Latin īnstallō (“to install, put in place, establish”), from in- + stallum (“stall”), from Frankish *stall (“stall, position, place”), from Proto-Germanic *stallaz (“place, position”), from Proto-Indo-European *stel-, *stAlǝn-, *stAlǝm- (“stem, trunk”). Cognate with Old High German stal (“location, stall”), Old English steall (“position, stall”), Old English onstellan (“to institute, create, originate, establish, give the example of”), Middle High German anstalt (“institute”), German anstellen (“to conduct, employ”), German einstellen (“to set, adjust, position”), Dutch aanstellen (“to appoint, commission, institute”), Dutch instellen (“to set up, establish”). More at in, stall.

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