Stalk, as a verb meaning вЂto pursue stealthily,вЂ™ dates back to before the year 900, in the form of the Old English verb вЂ“ stealcian, usually found as bestealcian, meaning вЂto walk warily or steal along.вЂ™ Most linguists believe that it can be traced back to the Proto-Germanic verb stalkon, a frequentative of the Proto-Indo-European verb root stel-, which is believed to be a variant of sterвЂ“ (to rob or steal). It has been used to describe long, thin structures in animals since the early 19th century. Stalk is related to the Old High German stellen (to set, place) and the Old English steala (a stalk or support) and steall (place), as well as the Greek stellein (вЂto put in order or make ready,вЂ™ вЂto equip or dress with weapons or clothes,вЂ™ or вЂto prepare (for a journey) or dispatch,вЂ™ the Albanian shtiell (to wind up, reel up or collect), the Old Prussian stallit (to stand), and Modern English words such as a postle, forestall, install, stale, stalion, stall, still, stilt, stole, and stout. It can be traced back to the Old English noun stalu (the wooden part of a tool), from the Proto-Germanic root stallaвЂ“ and the Proto-Indo-European root stol-, a variant of stelвЂ“ (to put, stand or put in order). It probably evolved from stale (meaning вЂa stalk, one of the uprights of a ladder, or handleвЂ™) with a diminutive -k. Stalk, as a noun meaning вЂthe stem of a plant,вЂ™ dates back to the late 13th or early 14th century, as the Middle English stalke.

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