From Middle English stethi, from Old Norse steði. Compare stithy.
From Old English stīþ ("hard, cruel"), from Proto-Germanic *stinþaz. Compare also Old Frisian stīth, Middle Low German stīde, Middle Dutch stīde, Old Norse stinnr, Danish stind, Swedish stinn.
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