step-

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Related to 🇨🇬. Not, however, related to the familiar English noun or verb.

Prefix

 * 1) A prefix used before father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter, child, and so forth, to indicate that the person being identified is not a blood relative but is related through the marriage of a parent.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: ögey
 * Bashkir: үгәй
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Crimean Tatar: ögey
 * Danish: sted-
 * Dutch: stief- (e.g. stiefdochter, stiefmoeder, stiefvader, stiefzoon)
 * Faroese: stjúk-
 * Finnish:
 * French:, bel-,
 * German:
 * Hebrew:, חורגת
 * Hindi:, सौतेली
 * Icelandic: stjúp-
 * Ido: stif-,
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: leas-
 * Italian:, astra, -astra
 * Javanese:
 * Kazakh: өгей
 * Maori: whakaangi
 * Mari:
 * Eastern Mari: ӧгай
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ste-
 * Nynorsk: ste-
 * Old Norse: stjúp-
 * Portuguese: -asto, -asta
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: -astro, -astra
 * Swahili: kambo
 * Swedish:
 * Tatar:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: öweý
 * Yiddish: שטיפֿ־

Etymology
From, from , from.

The short vowel is due to regular shortening of long vowels before consonant clusters in Early Middle English. All of the words that stēop- was prefixed to in Old English were consonant-initial, so shortening occurred exceptionlessly.

Prefix

 * 1)  related through the marriage of a parent