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Old English stēda ‘stallion’; related to stud2.
wiktionary
From Old English steda(“stallion, stud”) (compare Old Dutch stoti(“herd of horses”), Old High German stuot(“herd of horses”)).
etymonline
steed (n.)
Old English steda "stallion, stud horse," from Proto-Germanic *stodjon (source also of Old Norse stoð), from the same Germanic root as Old English stod (see stud (n.2)). In Middle English, "a great horse" (as distinguished from a palfrey), "a spirited war horse." Obsolete from 16c. except in poetic, rhetorical, or jocular language.