Etymology

staithe

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Today it means: A riverbank Full definition →

Old English stæþ ← Old Norse stöð
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The story

  1. Old Norse · derived fromstöð“harbor”
  2. Old English · inherited fromstæþ
  3. English todaystaithe

From Old English stæþ and/or Old Norse stöð (“harbor”).

Words from the same roots

Old Englishstæþ all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.