An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Stegreif

by Friedrich Kluge

Modern High German Stegreif, masculine, ‘stirrup,’ from the equivalent Middle High German stëgreif, Old High German stëgareif. An Old Teutonic term, as is shown by the correspondence between High German and Anglo-Saxon stigerâp, English stirrup, Old Icelandic stigreip; literally ‘rope, ring for mounting a horse’ (the term Steigbügel, ‘stirrup,’ equivalent to Dutch stijgbeugel, is unknown to Middle High German and Old High German. See, however, Bügel).