ston

ston

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ston"

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

    Inherited from Old English stān, from Proto-West Germanic *stain, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /stɔ̝ːn/
      • Rhymes: -ɔːn
    • IPA(key): /stɑːn/ (Early Middle English)
    • IPA(key): /staːn/ (Northern)

    Noun

    ston (plural stones or ston or (early, rare) stonen)

    1. A stone, boulder, or pebble:
      • c. 1275, Judas (Roud 2964, Child Ballad 23, Trinity College MS. B.14.39), folio 34, recto, lines 15-16; republished at Cambridge: Wren Digital Library (Trinity College), 29 May 2019:
        Iudaſ go þou on þe roc heie upon the ſton / lei þin heued i my barm, ſlep þou þe anon
        "Judas, get up on the rock, high on the stone, / rest your head on my lap and fall asleep right away!"
      • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎[1], published c. 1410, Apocalips 6:16, folio 119, verso, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:
        .· ⁊ þei ſeien to hillis and to ſtoonys falle ȝe on us ⁊ hide ȝe vs fro þe face of hi[m] þat ſittiþ on the troone.· ⁊ fro þe wraþþe of þe lomb ·
        And they said to hills and rocks: "Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one that sits on the throne and from the wrath of the lamb [] "
      1. A millstone or whetstone.
      2. A pebble used in a slingshot.
    2. A solid mass resembling a stone, particularly:
      1. A piece of hail, a hailstone.
      2. A kidney stone or gallstone.
      3. A pit; the hard seed of a fruit.
      4. A jewel; a gemstone.
      5. (colloquial) A testicle.
    3. Stone as a material (especially in construction)
    4. A stone structure or monument, especially a tomb or tombstone.
    5. A stone (unit of mass)

    Descendants

    • English: stone (see there for further descendants)
    • English: (West Yorkshire) stoan
    • English: (Ottawa-Valley) stoan, staun
    • Geordie: styen
    • Scots: stane
    • Yola: sthoan
    • Anglo-Norman: ston

    References

    Polish

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    ston m inan

    1. Middle Polish form of stan (one of the social layers into which society was divided in European countries from the 13th to the 18th centuries; belonging to such a class determined by origin or profession)
    2. (Łowicz) alternative form of stan (velvet decorated sleeveless part sewn onto a skirt)

    Declension

    References

    • STAN”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 17 February 2009
    • Marzena Kozanecka-Zwierz, Magdalena Bartosiewicz, Renata Marciniak-Firadza, editors (2014), “ston”, in Gwara – Księżaków "język ojczysty" Dziedzictwo regionu łowickiego (in Polish), Łowicz: Muzeum w Łowiczu, →ISBN, page 57

    Sranan Tongo

    Etymology

    From English stone.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /stoŋ/, /ston/, [stʊ̞̃ŋ], [stɔ̝ŋ]

    Noun

    ston

    1. stone

    Derived terms

    • fayaston
    • kubiston
    • stonbangi
    • stonbanti
    • stonfutu
    • Stonoso
    • stonpopki
    • stonskotu

    Swedish

    Noun

    ston

    1. indefinite plural of sto

    Anagrams

    Tok Pisin

    Etymology

    From English stone.

    Noun

    ston

    1. stone
      • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 2:12:
        Long kantri Havila i gat gutpela gol, na i gat wanpela kain diwai, blut bilong en i gat gutpela smel. Na i gat wanpela kain ston i dai tumas, em ol i save kolim kanilian.
        →New International Version translation

    Volapük

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ston/

    Noun

    ston (genitive stona, plural stons)

    1. stone

    Declension

    Declension of ston
    Singular Plural
    Nominative ston stons
    Genitive stona stonas
    Dative stone stones
    Accusative stoni stonis
    Predicative1 stonu stonus
    Vocative o ston o stons
    1. Introduced in Volapük Nulik.

    Derived terms

    • stonacan
    • stonik
    • stonil
    • stonön
    • stonöp

    Further reading

    • ston”, in Vödabuk (in English, Esperanto, and Volapük)