Where does “métayage” come from?

métayage (French) comes from French métayer, from Old French moitoier, from Late Latin medietarius, from Latin medius, from Latin locus, from Old Latin stlocus, from Proto-Italic stlokos, from Proto-Indo-European stel- — to put, to place; to locate.

métayage (French): sharecropping, farming to halves