stake
English
/steɪk/
noun
Definitions
- 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.
- (croquet) A piece of wood driven in the ground, placed in the middle of the court, that is used as the finishing point after scoring 12 hoops in croquet.
- A stick inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, flat car, flatbed trailer, or the like, to prevent goods from fall falling off.
- with definite article The piece of timber to which a person condemned to death was affixed to be burned.
- A share or interest in a business or a given situation.
- That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.
- A small anvil usually furnished with a tang to enter a hole in a bench top, as used by tinsmiths, blacksmiths, etc., for light work, punching hole in or cutting a work piece, or for specific forming techniques etc.
- (Mormonism) A territorial division comprising all the Mormons (typically several thousand) in a geographical area.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English stake inherited from Old English staca (stake, pin, tack) inherited from Proto-Germanic *stakô (stake, stick, pole, a stake, bar) derived from Proto-Indo-European *stog-.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*stog-
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- ale English
- alestake English
- bed English
- building English
- driver English
- grub English
- grubstake English
- head English
- holder English
- holding English
- hole English
- multistakeholder English
- net English
- out English
- restake English
- stake-driver English
- stakebed English
- stakebuilding English
- stakehead English
- stakeholder English
- stakeholdership English
- stakeholding English
- stakehole English
- stakelike English
- stakenet English
- stakeout English
- staker English
- stakest English
- staketh English
- staking English
- sweep English
- sweepstake English
- swoop English
- swoopstake English
- *stacca Latin
- staca Latin
- Staket German
- Stakete, Staket German
- bonenstaak Dutch, Flemish
- boonstaak Dutch, Flemish
- staak Dutch, Flemish
- штакет Russian
- *(s)teg- Proto-Indo-European
- *steg- Proto-Indo-European
- *stog- Proto-Indo-European
- estaca Portuguese
- estaquia Portuguese
- *stakô Proto-Germanic
- sztacheta Polish
- staca Old English
- stake Middle English
- staken Middle English
- stakyng Middle English
- staki Old Norse
- stakit Danish
- estache Old French
- stakket Icelandic
- estaca Galician
- stahho Old High German
- stache Middle High German
- estachette, estakette Middle French
- *𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌺𐌰 Gothic
- estaca Old Portuguese
- aizarnstèkho Cimbrian
- stèkho Cimbrian
- *staka Frankish
- *staka, *staku Frankish
- *stakō Frankish