Etymology

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Middle English sted ← Old English stede
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The story

  1. Old English · derived fromstede“place, spot, locality”
  2. Middle English · derived fromsted
  3. English todaysted

From Middle English sted, from Old English stede (“place, spot, locality”).

Words from the same roots

Middle Englishsted all →

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Old Englishstede all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.