English

abbeystead

From abbey + stead (“place”).

A compound of abbey + stead ‘place’

Middle English abbey ‘convent headed by an abbot’

English abbey

Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- ‘to stand’

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Proto-Germanic *stadiz ‘place’

Proto-West Germanic *stadi

Old English stede ‘place’

Middle English sted

English stead

Today it means

noun The seat of an abbey.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / abbeystead