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Old English · noun

stan

Normalised stān

Part of speech
noun, masculine
Declension
strong a-stem
IPA
/stɑːn/
Syllables
stɑːn (1 syllable)
Modern English
stonestmanuscript

Meaning

  1. stone

    Fȳr is behȳd on heardum stānum, sē stān cymð of eorðan, and hē swǣt swā ðēah, and of stānclūdum cumað wyllspringas.

    Fire is hidden within hard stones, the stone comes from the earth, which sweats, and so wellsprings come from the rocks.

    c. 1000, Ælfric of Eynsham, transl., Hexameron of St. Basil:

  2. the manuscript only runic character (/st/)

Declension

Declension of stan
SingularPlural
Nominative stānstānas
Accusative stānstānas
Genitive stānesstāna
Dative stānestānum

All forms (6)

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *stain, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz, from Proto-Indo-European *steyh₂no-, *stih₂-no- (a suffixed form of *steyh₂- (“to be solid, to crowd together”)). Cognate with Old Frisian stēn, Old Saxon stēn (German Low German Steen), Old Dutch sten, stein (Dutch steen), Old High German stein (German Stein), Old Norse steinn (Icelandic steinn, Faroese steinur, Norwegian Nynorsk stein, Norwegian Bokmål stein, sten, Danish sten, Swedish sten), Gothic (stains). The Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek στῖον (stîon, “pebble”), Proto-Slavic *stěnà (Bulgarian …

Descendants

stone

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