Old English · noun
stow
Normalised stōw
- Part of speech
- noun, feminine
- Declension
- strong ō-stem
- IPA
- /stoːw/
- Syllables
- stoːw (1 syllable)
- Modern English
- stowhousesbuiltpositionseriessteadcollection
Meaning
-
a place
Ne sċoldest þū gān tō swā frēcenre stōwe.
You shouldn't have gone to such a dangerous place.
-
a place on the body
-
a place that is built; house, collection of houses, habitation, dwelling
-
a place, position, or spot in a series
-
a room, stead
-
a place or passage in a book
Declension
All forms (4)
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *stōu, from Proto-Germanic *stōō (“a place, location, position”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand, place, put”).
Descendants
stow
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