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English word stand comes from Proto-Indo-European *sth₂-, and later Proto-Germanic *standaną (To stand.)
*sth₂- (Proto-Indo-European)
*sth₂-n-t-´ (Proto-Indo-European)
*stéh₂-t- (Proto-Indo-European)
*standaną (Proto-Germanic)
To stand.
standan (Old English)
To stand.
standen (Middle English)
To stand.
stand (English)
(US, dated) The situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc.. (cricket) A partnership.. (dated) A state of perplexity or embarrassment.. (forestry) A contiguous group of trees sufficiently uniform in age-class distribution, composition, and structure, and growing on a site of sufficiently uniform quality, to be a distinguishable unit.. (military, plural often stand) A single set, as of arms.. [...]