•an express messenger, especially one using relay horses · relay, relay race (competition between teams where members of a team take turns completing parts of a course or performing a certain action) · baton (object transferred between members of a team in a relay race)
köken: From Middle High German stap, stab, from Old High German stab, from Proto-West Germanic *stab. Cognate with English staff, Dutch staf, Swedish stav, Old Norse stafr. The meaning co-workers is secondary: in the German word Generalstab (“General Staff”) the meaning changed from the staff as a symbol of authority to the group of military officers and later to any group of co-workers.
aile: stabartig, stabförmig
Ihm ist, als ob es tausend Stäbe gäbe / und hinter tausend Stäben keine Welt.
witness · testimony (statements made by a witness in court) · balk
çekim: çoğul testimonis
köken: Borrowed from Latin testimōnium. First attested in the 13th century.
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Makedoncaштафе́та, штафе́тна палка
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Etimoloji
Borrowed from Italian staffetta (“courier; relay race; relay team”), also via German Stafette (“courier; relay race”). Chiefly introduced via military jargon. First attested in 1697.