'Story' and 'history' are doublets — the same Latin 'historia' entered English twice by different routes.
An account of imaginary or real people and events told for entertainment; a narrative.
From Old French 'estorie' (story, history, chronicle), from Latin 'historia' (account of events, narrative, history), from Greek 'historía' (ἱστορία, inquiry, knowledge from inquiry, narrative), from 'hístōr' (wise man, judge, one who knows), from PIE *weyd- (to see, to know). 'Story' and 'history' are doublets — the same Latin word that entered English twice: 'story' (through the French, with the 'hi-' dropped) and 'history' (through the Latin, with it preserved). Key roots: *weyd- (Proto-Indo-European: "to see