Etymology

substep

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Today it means: Any smaller element of a step in a procedure. Full definition →

English step ← Middle English steppen ← Old English stæppan
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The story

  1. Latinsub
  2. Latinsub-
  3. Englishsub-
  4. Proto-Germanic*stapjaną
  5. Proto-West Germanic*stappjan
  6. Old Englishstæppan
  7. Middle Englishsteppen
  8. Englishstep
  9. English todaysubstep

From sub- + step.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.