Etymograph

English

stringpiece

From string + piece.

A compound of string + piece

Proto-Indo-European *strengʰ- ‘rope’

Proto-Germanic *strangiz

Proto-West Germanic *strangi

Old English strenġ

Middle English string

English string

Late Latin pettia ‘fragment’

Old French piece

Middle English pece ‘piece’

English piece

Today it means

noun A stringer (long piece of timber as support, especially a plank supporting a flight or run of stairs).

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “stringpiece”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / stringpiece