It's thought to be an aphetic (shortened) form of distress. Distress is from Middle English destresse which in turn is from Old French destrece.
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An eight letter word for put under stress is "strained."
anxiety
Threadlike. The word "filament" is formed from the same root word
ends in 'iest' = earliest (root word: early) ends in 'ier' = trickier (root word: tricky)
anxiety