stein

See also: stein- and Stein

English

Faience beer stein

Glass beer stein

Etymology

From a regional use of German Stein (“stone”). Probably a clipping of Steingut (“stoneware”) or Steinkrug (“stone pitcher”). Compare Old English stǣna (“stone jug, a pot of stone or earth”). Doublet of stone. More at stean.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /staɪn/

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  Rhymes: -aɪn

Noun

stein (plural steins)

1. A beer mug, usually made of ceramic or glass.
   • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, “Zollenstein”, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 731476803, page 40:

     So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein—coloring and all. Backed by towering hills, […] a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

   • 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, 1st US edition, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, part 3: In the Zone, page 305:

     A gnome-size German civilian with a red von Hindenburg mustache is dispensing steins of what looks to be mostly head.

   • 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest: A Novel, New York, N.Y.; Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, pages 24–25:

     […] those 50 grams of resin-soaked dope, which had been so potent that on the second day it had given him an anxiety attack so paralyzing that he had gone to the bathroom in a Tufts University commemorative ceramic stein to avoid leaving his bedroom, […]

Related terms

• Stein
• steinstrasse

Translations

a beer mug

• Bulgarian: керамична халба f (keramična halba)
• Catalan: boc (ca) m
• Dutch: bierpul (nl) f
• Finnish: oluttuoppi (fi)
• French: chope (fr) f
• German: Bierkrug (de) m, Bierglas (de) n, Bierseidel (de) n, Seidel (de) n, Maßkrug (de) m, Maß (de) f, Steinkrug m, Humpen (de) m
• Italian: boccale (it) m
• Polish: kufel (pl) m
• Romanian: halbă (ro) f
• Swedish: stop (sv) n
• Turkish: bira kupası
• Ukrainian: ку́холь m (kúxolʹ)
• Volapük: biraköp (vo)

See also

• beer glass
• tankard

References

• Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1.[1]

Further reading

• Beer stein on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Tiens, inset, neist, nites, senti, set in, sient, snite, tines, tsine

Crimean Gothic

Alternative forms

• stern

Etymology

Possibly a corruption of stern. At any rate from Proto-Germanic *sternǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr.

Noun

stein

1. star
   • 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:

     Stein. Stella.

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /steiːn/

Noun

stein

1. indefinite accusative singular of steinn

Middle High German

Etymology

From Old High German stein, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s̠tɛi̯n/

Noun

stein m (plural steine)

1. stone
   • circa 1200, Walther von der Vogelweide, Ich saz ūf eime steine:

     Ich saz ūf eime steine
     Und dahte bein mit beine.

     I was sitting on a stone
     Putting one leg over the other.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse steinn, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stæɪn/

  Rhymes: -æɪn

Adjective

stein (neuter singular stein, definite singular and plural steine)

1. (slang) stoned, under the influence of cannabis

Noun

stein m (definite singular steinen, indefinite plural steiner, definite plural steinene)

1. stone
2. pip (in citrus fruit, grapes)

Alternative forms

• sten (Bokmål)

Derived terms

Terms derived from stein

• belegningsstein
• byggestein
• bygningsstein
• edelstein
• gallestein
• gravstein
• grunnstein
• hjørnestein
• kalkstein
• kampestein
• murstein
• møllestein

• nyrestein
• siltstein
• smykkestein
• småstein
• steinalder
• steinansikt
• steinarbeid
• steinblokk
• steinbrudd
• steindød
• steine
• steinete

• steingammel, steingammal
• steingjerde
• steingrunn
• steinkast
• steinkobbe
• steinmur
• steinras
• steinsirkel
• steinsprut
• steinvegg
• takstein

Verb

stein

1. imperative of steine

References

• “stein” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• (noun): steidn
• (adverb): steinsens

Etymology

From Old Norse steinn, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz. Akin to English stone.

The adjective is a Calque of English stoned.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stɛɪːn/

Noun

stein m (definite singular steinen, indefinite plural steinar, definite plural steinane)

1. stone
2. pip (e.g. in citrus fruit, grapes, cherries)

Derived terms

Terms derived from stein

• byggestein
• bygningsstein
• edelstein
• gallestein
• gravstein
• grunnstein
• hjørnestein
• kalkstein
• kampestein
• murstein
• nyrestein
• siltstein

• smykkestein
• småstein
• stabbestein
• steinalder
• steinansikt
• steinarbeid
• steinblokk
• steindød
• steine, steina
• steinete
• steingammal

• steingard
• steingjerde
• steingrunn
• steinkast
• steinkobbe
• steinmur
• steinras
• steinsirkel
• steinsprut
• steinvegg
• takstein

Adjective

stein (definite singular and plural steine)

1. (slang) stoned, under the influence of cannabis

Adverb

stein

1. (colloquial) Used as an intensifier; completely

   Noko er stein hakkande gale?

References

• “stein” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *stain, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz.

Noun

stein m

1. stone

Declension

Declension of stein (masculine a-stem)

case	singular	plural
nominative	stein	steina
accusative	stein	steina
genitive	steines	steino
dative	steine	steinum
instrumental	steinu	—

Derived terms

• agatstein
• fiurstein
• flinsstein
• griozstein
• salzstein
• santstein
• senkilstein
• steinofan

Descendants

• Middle High German: stein
  • Alemannic German: Steei

    Swabian: Schdoi, Schdoa

  • Bavarian: Schdoa, Schdaa
  • Central Franconian: Stään, Steen, Stein

    Hunsrik: Steen, xtayn

    Transylvanian Saxon: Stien

  • German: Stein
  • Luxembourgish: Steen
  • Vilamovian: śtan
  • Yiddish: שטיין‎ (shteyn)

Old Norse

Noun

stein

1. indefinite accusative singular of steinn