Steg

From Old High German steg. Germanic cognates include Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌲𐌰 (staiga, “way”), non-Germanic ones: Russian стезя́ (stezjá), Lithuanian stiga, Ancient Greek στίχος (stíkhos), Albanian shteg.

• IPA^(key): /ʃteːk/, [ʃteːkʰ]

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Steg m (strong, genitive Steges or Stegs, plural Stege)

1. A path, footbridge, or catwalk, usually made of wooden planks, often over water or wet or muddy ground; a jetty; a gangplank; duckboards.
2. (by extension) a bridge-like or connecting piece or part of certain objects.
   1. (music) the saddle or bridge of a stringed instrument
   2. the bridge of a pair of glasses

      Synonym: Brillensteg

   3. a foot strap or stirrup on leggings

• Brillensteg

Steg n (proper noun, genitive Stegs or (optionally with an article) Steg)

1. A village in Triesenberg, Liechtenstein

• “Steg” in Duden online
• “Steg” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Steg”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891