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English word staff comes from Proto-Indo-European *stebʰ, and later Proto-Germanic *stabaz (A staff, stick.)
*stebʰ (Proto-Indo-European)
*stabaz (Proto-Germanic)
A staff, stick.
stæf (Old English)
(grammar) letter, written character. Staff (pole, line).
staf (Middle English)
staff (English)
(archaic) The rung of a ladder.. (engineering) An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.. (military) An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution.. (music, plural staves) A series of [...]