古英語のstede, position, placeから、原語ゲルマン語*stadiz, position, placeから、PIE*sta, to stand, to establishから、語源的にはstand, stateと同じ。置換から派生し、in somebody's stead, in somebody's positionから省略された。
英語の語源
stead
stead: [OE] Stead ‘place’ comes from a prehistoric Germanic *stadiz, which also produced German statt ‘place’ and stadt ‘town’. This in turn went back to Indo-European *st?tís, a derivative of the base *st? -, *stā- ‘stand’, which also produced English stand and Latin stāre ‘stand’ (source of English state, statue, etc). The expression in the stead of ‘in place of’, and its lexicalized form instead, originated in the 13th century, modelled on Old French en lieu de. => stand, state, statue, steady
stead (n.)
Old English stede "place, position; standing, firmness, stability, fixity," from Proto-Germanic *stadiz (cognates: Old Saxon stedi, Old Norse staer "place, spot; stop, pause; town," Swedish stad, Dutch stede "place," Old High German stat, German Stadt "town," Gothic stats "place"), from PIE *steti-, suffixed form of root *sta- "to stand" (see stet). Related to stand.
Now chiefly in compounds or phrases. Meaning "assistance, use, benefit, advantage" is from c. 1300. Meaning "frame on which a bed is laid" is from c. 1400. The German use of Stadt for "town, city" "is a late development from c. 1200 when the term began to replace Burg" [Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names]. The Steads was 16c. English for "the Hanseatic cities."
例文
1. My years of teaching stood me in good stead .
長年の教鞭経験は私を大いに役立たせた。
2.I 've always felt that solid experience would stand me in good stead .
確かな経験が私に有利になるような気がします。
3.We hope you will consent to act in his stead .
私たちはあなたが彼の職務を代行することに同意することを望んでいます。
4.My grandmother and aunt will be there in my parents ' stead .