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Stagger

2 stages from Old Norse to English.

Today it means to walk or move unsteadily, as if about to fall, or to arrange things at intervals
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Stage 1 of 2
stakra
Old Norse · medieval
"to totter, to reel"
to push, to cause to totter unsteadily
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Stage 2 of 2
stagger
English · 1300s
"to walk or move unsteadily"
settled as the English word for walking unsteadily
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