Word Origin Summary

Stat is attested in Middle Dutch. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. *stadiProto-West Germanicinherited from
2. stediOld Dutchinherited from
3. statOld Dutchinherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• stad

  Dutch · inherited from

• stat

  Papiamento · derived from

• stad

  Afrikaans · inherited from

• stade

  English · derived from

• Stad aan 't Haringvliet

  Dutch · inherited from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root