Stakkynge

Part of speech: verb, noun

Definitions

1. An archaic spelling of staking, meaning the act of fixing, marking out or supporting something with wooden stakes
2. A Middle English form of staking, referring to driving stakes into the ground to fasten, mark or support something
3. Old spelling of the verb to stake, describing the action of pinning, marking or propping up something with stakes

Etymology: Behind this spelling is a plain idea: a stake, a pole of wood driven into the ground. Its ancestor is Old English "staca", meaning a stake or pole, and it has close relatives across the Germanic languages, such as Dutch "staak" and Old Norse "stakr". The verb formed from it means to fix something in place, or to mark or support it, with stakes. The ending is the ordinary verb-forming suffix "-ing", written here in a Middle English spelling: "-ynge" for "-ing", and the doubled "kk" to show the short vowel before it. Modern English keeps the same word with the same sense, so the spelling is the main thing that has changed.