English stance

← Middle English staunce (inherited)

← Spanish estante (cognate)

← French stance (cognate)

← Old French estance (derived)

← Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (root)

← Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (derived)

← Italian stanza (derived)

← Latin stāns (derived)

← Latin stō (derived)

→ English stanza (doublet)

→ English estancia (doublet)

→ English life stance (compound)

→ English midstance (prefix)

→ English stanceless (suffix)