stell

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English stellen, from Old English stellan (“to give a place to, set, place”), from Proto-Germanic *stallijanan (“to put, position”), from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to place, put, post, stand”). Cognate with Dutch stellen (“to set, put”), Low German stellen (“to put, place, fix”), German stellen (“to set, place, provide”), Old English steall (“position, place”). More at stall.

Verb

stell (third-person singular simple present stells, present participle stelling, simple past and past participle stelled or stold)

1. (transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To set; place; fix.
   • 1609, Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets:

     Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd Thy beauty's form in table of my heart; [...]

2. (transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To place in position; set up, fix, plant; prop, mount.

Etymology 2

Alteration of stall, after the verb stell.

Noun

stell (plural stells)

1. (archaic) A place; station.
2. A stall; a fold for cattle.

Related terms

• stall

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German

Verb

stell

1. Imperative singular of stellen.