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Yoïn van Spijk@yvanspijk.bsky.social |
The word 'stead' has the same distant ancestor as 'stasis', which is a borrowing from Ancient Greek. It's also related to German 'Stadt' (city) and, more distantly, to 'station' and Italian 'stagione' (season). All of these words stem from the root that also gave us 'to stand'. Here's more:
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Daniel Tobias
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Danish (and Norwegian Bokmål) has the neuter variant ‘sted’ (place; situation) which is not dated. Den danske ordbog says that ‘stad’ meaning city is a semantic loan from Middle Low German. It is mostly used in compounds such as ‘hovedstad’ (capital), ‘forstad’ (suburb) and ‘kjøpstad’ (market town).
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