Where does “bestand” come from?

bestand (Dutch) comes from German bestand, from German be-, from German be.

bestand (Dutch): archive, file; file; truce

Definitions

  1. archive, file; file; truce

Ancestry of “bestand”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Germanbestandfirst/third-person singular preterite of bestehen
2Germanbe-Inseparable verbal prefix that signifies working...
3Germanbe—

Words derived from “bestand”

Every word from German be →