stake – English noun declension

English noun forms of stake

Noun: stake
Singularstake
Pluralstakes

Sample Sentences

  • We have surveyor's stakes at all four corners of this field, to mark exactly its borders.
  • A sharpened stake strong Dryas found. [1717, John Dryden [et al.], “(please specify |book=I to XV)”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:]
  • Thomas Cranmer was burnt at the stake.
  • However, the word "witch" came to be applied almost exclusively to women who [...] were usually old and ugly, and for this reason many unfortunate old ladies, whose only crimes were loneliness and a lack of beauty, went to the stake. [1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 106:]
  • The owners let the managers eventually earn a stake in the business.
  • The French Government is Eurostar's majority shareholder, with the country's state-owned railway SNCF holding a 55% stake, while Belgian state operator SNCB has a 5% stake. [2021 February 10, Richard Clinnick, “Eurostar boost as French promise aid”, in RAIL, number 924, page 10:]
  • Every city, or stake, including a chief town and surrounding towns, has its president, with two counselors; and this president has a high council of chosen men. [1910, Schaff–Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English stake, from Old English staca (“pin, tack, stake”), from Proto-West Germanic *stakō, from Proto-Germanic *stakô (“stake”), from Proto-Indo-European *stog-, *steg- (“stake”).
2. Cognate with Scots stak, staik, Saterland Frisian Stak, West Frisian staak, Dutch staak, Low German Stake, Norwegian stake, Spanish estaca. See: Middle English Nouns 'stake', Old English Nouns 'staca', Spanish Nouns 'estaca'.

Verbs referencing "stake"

Galician Nouns estaca, Portuguese Nouns estaca, English Nouns estacade, Polish Nouns sztacheta, German Nouns Stake, Russian Nouns штакет, Icelandic Nouns stakket.