Etymograph

English

post

Post comes from Latin postis ‘door, post, doorpost’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- ‘to stand (up)’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*steh₂-‘to stand’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂pó-sth₂-i-sreconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*postisreconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpostis‘door’
  5. Old Frenchc. 842–1400post
  6. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500same form
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1600same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*steh₂-‘to stand’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂pó-sth₂-i-sreconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*postisreconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpostis‘door’
  5. Old Frenchc. 842–1400post
  6. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500same form
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1600same form

Earliest quotation: 1600, Samuel Rowlands: “when God ſends coyne, I will diſcharge your poaſt”.

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- ‘to stand (up)’

state, system, stay, rest, stand, distance, assistant, assistance, stadium, constitution, instance, consistent, contest, establishment, establish, stood, stable, assist, stability, instant, destination, substance, testimony, destiny, distant, resist, stem, static, insist, persistent, consist, stationary, prostitution, stud, persist, extant, substitution, prostitute, stool, stamina, 158 more

Another origin of post

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*tḱey-‘to cultivate’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*tḱinétireconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*sinō‘to put in place’reconstructed
  4. Proto-Italic, derivedc. 1500–700 BCE*pozinōreconstructed
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpōnō‘to place’
  6. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEposita
  7. Italianc. 1300–presentposta‘stopping-place for coaches’
  8. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600poste
  9. Englishtodaypost

Another origin of post

  1. Frenchc. 1600–presentposteuncertain
  2. Englishtodaypost

Another origin of post

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*pós‘afterwards, post-’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*pósti‘after’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*posti‘behind, after’reconstructed
  4. Old Latinc. 700–75 BCEposte
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpost‘behind (of space)’
  6. Englishtodaysame form

Today it means

noun A long dowel or plank protruding from the ground; a fencepost; a lightpost.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- / post

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