stair – English noun declension

English noun forms of stair

Noun: stair
Singularstair
Pluralstairs

Sample Sentences

  • Yesterday, upon the stair / I met a man who wasn’t there / He wasn’t there again today / I wish, I wish he’d go away … [1899, Hughes Mearns, Antigonish:]
  • Among other work done, according to the letter: CPR replaced the bottom of a deteriorating stair column base with hollow steel structural sections; conducted exploratory demolition on the underside of an eave that required “removal and reconstruction”; and removed all loose “cracked, spalled, deteriorated, and delaminated concrete” and damaged stucco from the underside of balcony eaves on 114 of the building’s 136 units, the letter said. [2021 July 2, Eliott C. McLaughlin, Alta Spells, Francesca Giuliani-Hoffman, “Firm held off on repairs because of stability issues in months before Surfside building collapse”, in CNN, archived from the original on 22 Nov 2021:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *steygʰ-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-eti
4. Proto-Indo-European *stéygʰeti
5. Proto-Germanic *stīganą
6. Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
7. Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
8. Proto-Germanic *-janą
9. Proto-Germanic *staigijaną
10. Proto-Indo-European *-rós
11. Proto-Germanic *-raz
12. Proto-Germanic *staigraz
13. Proto-Germanic *staigriz
14. Proto-West Germanic *staigri
15. Old English stǣġer
16. Middle English steire
17. English stair
18. From Middle English steire, staire, stayre, stayer, steir, steyre, steyer, from Old English stǣġer (“stair, staircase”), from Proto-West Germanic *staigri, from Proto-Germanic *staigriz (“stairs, scaffolding”), from Proto-Indo-European *steygʰ- (“to walk, proceed, march, climb”).
19. Cognate with Dutch steiger (“a stair, step, wharf, pier, scaffolding”), Middle Low German steiger, steir (“scaffolding”), German Low German Steiger (“a scaffold; trestle”). Related to Old English āstǣġan (“to ascend, go up, embark”), Old English stīġan (“to go, move, reach; ascend, mount, go up, spring up, rise; scale”), German Stiege (“a flight of stairs”). More at sty. See: Middle English Nouns 'steire', Old English Nouns 'stǣġer', Dutch Nouns 'steiger', Old English Nouns 'āstǣġan', Old English Nouns 'stīġan', German Nouns 'Stiege'.

Verbs referencing "stair"

German Nouns Stiege.