stalk – English noun declension

English noun forms of stalk

Noun: stalk
Singularstalk
Pluralstalks

Sample Sentences

  • a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats;  the stalks of maize or hemp
  • Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with […] on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs. [1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter I (Anarchy), pages 377–378:]
  • grape stalks
  • they appear to be made up of little Bladders , like those in the Plume or Stalk of a Quill [1681, Nehemiah Grew, Musæum Regalis Societatis. Or A Catalogue & Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and Preserved at Gresham Colledge. […], London: […] W. Rawlins, for the author, →OCLC:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English stalke, stelke, stalk, perhaps from Old English *stealc, *stielc, *stealuc, from Proto-West Germanic *staluk, *stalik, from Proto-Germanic *stalukaz, *stalikaz, diminutive of Proto-Germanic *stalô, *staluz (“support, stem, stalk”), from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to place, stand; be stiff; stud, post, trunk, stake, stem, stalk”).
2. Cognates
3. Cognate with Dutch staal (“sample”), steel (“stem”), German Stiel (“stalk”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål stilk (“stalk, stem”), Faroese stjølur (“bottom part of a sheaf”), Icelandic stilkur (“stalk, stem”), Norwegian Nynorsk stilk, stylk (“stalk, stem”), styl (“lower part of a straw”), Swedish stjälk (“stalk, stem”), Albanian shtalkë (“crossbeam, board used as a door hinge”), Welsh telm (“frond”), Ancient Greek στειλειή (steileiḗ, “beam”), Old Armenian ստեղն (stełn, “trunk, stalk”). See: Middle English Nouns 'stalke', Old English Nouns '*stealc', Dutch Nouns 'staal', German Nouns 'Stiel', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns 'stilk', Faroese Nouns 'stjølur', Icelandic Nouns 'stilkur', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns 'stilk', Swedish Nouns 'stjälk'.

Verbs referencing "stalk"

Ancient Greek Nouns στελεά, Swedish Nouns stjälk.