"Step-" is a word in ENGLISH

A prefix used before father, mother, brother, sister, son,
daughter, child, etc., to indicate that the person thus spoken of is
not a blood relative, but is a relative by the marriage of a parent;
as, a stepmother to X is the wife of the father of X, married by him
after the death of the mother of X. See Stepchild, Stepdaughter,
Stepson, etc.

To set, as the foot.

To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.

Walk; passage.

Fig.: To move mentally; to go in imagination.

An advance or movement made by one removal of the foot; a
pace.

To walk; to go on foot; esp., to walk a little distance; as,
to step to one of the neighbors.

To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising
and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both
feet in succession.

To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.

A small space or distance; as, it is but a step.

The space passed over by one movement of the foot in
walking or running; as, one step is generally about three feet, but may
be more or less. Used also figuratively of any kind of progress; as, he
improved step by step, or by steps.

Gait; manner of walking; as, the approach of a man is
often known by his step.

A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in
ascending or descending, as a stair, or a round of a ladder.

A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a
vertical shaft revolves.

Proceeding; measure; action; an act.

In general, a framing in wood or iron which is intended to
receive an upright shaft; specif., a block of wood, or a solid platform
upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast.

The intervak between two contiguous degrees of the csale.

A change of position effected by a motion of translation.

A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in
reaching to a high position.

A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.

One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps
of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the
belt runs.