stene

See also: Stene, stěně, štene, and štěně

Afrikaans

Noun

stene

1. plural of steen

Middle English

Alternative forms

• steene (Late Middle English)

Etymology

Inherited from Old English stǣna, from Proto-West Germanic *stainijā, from Proto-Germanic *stainijǭ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɛ̝ːn(ə)/

Noun

stene (plural stenes)

1. An (often clay) vessel for liquids; a pot or stean.
2. (rare) An urn; a vessel for cremated remains.
3. (rare) A unit of measure of around six gallons.

Descendants

• English: stean
• → Middle Welsh: sten, ysten
  • Welsh: stên, ystên

References

• “stēne, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

stene (present tense stener, past tense stena or stenet, past participle stena or stenet)

1. pelt with stones, to stone

Usage notes

This spelling is not recognised in Bokmål, only steine is. It may be used in Riksmål, and the same spelling is used by the Danish infinitive, but with different inflections.

Alternative forms

• steine

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

stene (Cyrillic spelling стене)

1. inflection of stena:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Slovak

Noun

stene

1. dative/locative singular of stena