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ston

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ston"

Middle English

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Etymology

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    Inherited from Old English stān, from Proto-West Germanic *stain, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz.

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    ston (plural stones or ston or (early, rare) stonen)

    1. A stone, boulder, or pebble:
      1. A millstone or whetstone.
      2. A pebble used in a slingshot.
    2. A solid mass resembling a stone, particularly:
      1. A piece of hail, a hailstone.
      2. A kidney stone or gallstone.
      3. A pit; the hard seed of a fruit.
      4. A jewel; a gemstone.
      5. (colloquial) A testicle.
    3. Stone as a material (especially in construction)
    4. A stone structure or monument, especially a tomb or tombstone.
    5. A stone (unit of mass)
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    Descendants

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    • English: stone (see there for further descendants)
    • English: (West Yorkshire) stoan
    • English: (Ottawa-Valley) stoan, staun
    • Geordie: styen
    • Scots: stane
    • Yola: sthoan
    • → Anglo-Norman: ston

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    Polish

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    ston m inan

    1. Middle Polish form of stan (“one of the social layers into which society was divided in European countries from the 13th to the 18th centuries; belonging to such a class determined by origin or profession”)
    2. (Łowicz) alternative form of stan (“velvet decorated sleeveless part sewn onto a skirt”)

    Declension

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    Attested forms of *ston
    singular plural
    nominative — —
    genitive stonu —
    dative — —
    accusative — —
    instrumental — —
    locative — —
    vocative — —

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    • “STAN”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 17 February 2009
    • Marzena Kozanecka-Zwierz, Magdalena Bartosiewicz, Renata Marciniak-Firadza, editors (2014), “ston”, in Gwara – Księżaków "język ojczysty" Dziedzictwo regionu łowickiego (in Polish), Łowicz: Muzeum w Łowiczu, →ISBN, page 57

    Sranan Tongo

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    Ston

    Etymology

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    From English stone.

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    • IPA(key): /stoŋ/, /ston/, [stʊ̞̃ŋ], [stɔ̝ŋ]

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    ston

    1. stone

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    Swedish

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    Noun

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    ston

    1. indefinite plural of sto

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    Tok Pisin

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    Etymology

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    From English stone.

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    ston

    1. stone
      • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 2:12:
        Long kantri Havila i gat gutpela gol, na i gat wanpela kain diwai, blut bilong en i gat gutpela smel. Na i gat wanpela kain ston i dai tumas, em ol i save kolim kanilian.
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    Volapük

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    ston (genitive stona, plural stons)

    1. stone

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    Declension of ston
    Singular Plural
    Nominative ston stons
    Genitive stona stonas
    Dative stone stones
    Accusative stoni stonis
    Predicative1 stonu stonus
    Vocative o ston o stons
    1. Introduced in Volapük Nulik.

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    Further reading

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    • “ston”, in Vödabuk (in English, Esperanto, and Volapük)
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