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Middle English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old English stān, from Proto-West Germanic *stain, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ston (plural stones or ston or (early, rare) stonen)
- A stone, boulder, or pebble:
- c. 1275, Judas (Roud 2964, Child Ballad 23, Trinity College MS. B.14.39)[1], folio 34, recto, lines 15-16; republished at Cambridge: Wren Digital Library (Trinity College), 2019 May 29:
- Iudaſ go þou on þe roc heie upon the ſton / lei þin heued i my barm, ſlep þou þe anon
- "Judas, get up on the rock, high on the stone, / rest your head on my lap and fall asleep right away!"
- c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)[2], published c. 1410, Apocalips 6:16, page 119v, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:
- .· ⁊ þei ſeien to hillis and to ſtoonys falle ȝe on us ⁊ hide ȝe vs fro þe face of hi[m] þat ſittiþ on the troone.· ⁊ fro þe wraþþe of þe lomb ·
- And they said to hills and rocks: "Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one that sits on the throne and from the wrath of the lamb […] "
- A solid mass resembling stone, especially:
- Stone as a material (especially in construction)
- A stone structure or monument, especially a tomb or tombstone.
- A stone (unit of mass)
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- English: stone (see there for further descendants)
- Geordie English: styen
- Scots: stane
- Yola: sthoan
- → Anglo-Norman: ston
References
[edit]- “stōn, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-05.
Sranan Tongo
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[edit]ston
Swedish
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[edit]ston
- indefinite plural of sto
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[edit]ston
Volapük
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ston (nominative plural stons)
Declension
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