Noun: stan
Gender:
Nominative
| Singular | stān |
| Plural | stānas |
Genitive
| Singular | stānes |
| Plural | stāna |
Dative
| Singular | stāne |
| Plural | stānum |
Accusative
| Singular | stān |
| Plural | stānas |
Sample Sentences
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Fȳr is behȳd on heardum stānum, sē stān cymð of eorðan, and hē swǣt swā ðēah, and of stānclūdum cumað wyllspringas. (Fire is hidden within hard stones, the stone comes from the earth, which sweats, and so wellsprings come from the rocks.) [c. 1000, Ælfric of Eynsham, transl., Hexameron of St. Basil:]
Nouns inflected like stan
weorcstan,
sandstan,
tæflstan,
grundstan,
hagolstan,
sincstan,
weallstan,
byrþenstan,
papol-stan,
cweornstan,
stælhran,
tan,
hwamstan,
mealmstan,
hwetstan,
mylenstan,
wuldortan,
marmstan,
sealtstan,
misteltan, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Proto-West Germanic *stain, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz, from Proto-Indo-European *steyh₂no-, *stih₂-no- (a suffixed form of *steyh₂- (“to be solid, to crowd together”)).
2. Cognate with Old Frisian stēn, Old Saxon stēn (German Low German Steen), Old Dutch sten, stein (Dutch steen), Old High German stein (German Stein), Old Norse steinn (Icelandic steinn, Faroese steinur, Norwegian Nynorsk stein, Norwegian Bokmål stein, sten, Danish sten, Swedish sten), Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (stains). The Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek στῖον (stîon, “pebble”), Proto-Slavic *stěnà (Bulgarian стена (stena), Russian стена́ (stená), Czech stěna (“wall”)). See: Dutch Nouns '
steen', German Nouns '
Stein', Old Norse Nouns '
steinn', Icelandic Nouns '
steinn', Faroese Nouns '
steinur', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns '
stein', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns '
stein', Danish Nouns '
sten', Swedish Nouns '
sten', Gothic Nouns '
𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃', Bulgarian Nouns '
стена', Czech Nouns '
stěna'.
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