step- Hear it!

step- Definition

step- (step)

related through the remarriage of a parent stepchild, stepparent

Etymology: ME < OE steop-, orphaned (akin to Ger stief-, ON stjup-) < base of stiepan, to bereave, prob. < IE *(s)teub-, to strike (hence “cut off”) > stump, steep: orig. used of orphaned children