Etymograph

English

stake

Stake comes from Middle English stake ‘a stake’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *stog-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*stog-reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*stakôreconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*stakōreconstructed
  4. Old Englishc. 450–1150staca‘pin, tack, stake’
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500stake‘a stake’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1709stake

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*stog-reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*stakôreconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*stakōreconstructed
  4. Old Englishc. 450–1150staca‘pin, tack, stake’
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500stake‘a stake’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1709stake

Earliest quotation: 1709, Alexander Pope, Pastorals. Spring. The First Pastoral, or Damon. […]: “I'll ſtake my Lamb that near the Fountain plays,…”

Linked words

through Proto-Germanic *stakô

attachment, attach, detachment

Today it means

noun A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a marker or a support or stay.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *stog- / stake

Shirt and support for this word