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Swedish

stå

/stoː/ · verb

Meaning

  1. stand; be in an upright position
  2. be at a standstill, not be running
  3. be held, take place, happen
  4. be written down, to say, to read
  5. to last, to keep (not spoil)
  6. to hold up, to stand up
  7. to make it (not succumb or the like)

Etymology / origin

From Old Swedish stā, possibly from an unattested eastern Old Norse stá, or via early Middle Low German stān. Both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *stāną, from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-. Or from earlier Swedish stånda, from Old Swedish staanda, standa, stonda, from Old Norse standa, from Proto-Germanic *stāną, from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-. In any case from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-. Compare German stehen, Dutch staan, Danish stå, Norwegian Bokmål stå, English stand, Latin stāre, stō.

  1. stō(la)→
  2. stand(English)→
  3. stå(Norwegian Bokmål)→
  4. stå(Danish)→
  5. staan(Dutch)→
  6. stehen(German)→
  7. *steh₂-(ine-pro)→
  8. *steh₂-(ine-pro)→
  9. *stāną(gem-pro)→
  10. standa(Old Norse)→
  11. staanda(gmq-osw)→
  12. stånda(Swedish)→
  13. *steh₂-(ine-pro)→
  14. *stāną(gem-pro)→
  15. stān(gml)→
  16. stá(non)→
  17. sta(gmq-osw)→
  18. *steh₂-(ine-pro)→
  19. stå (Swedish)
  20. Relations: root, der, der, der, der, der, cog, der, der, der, der, der, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog

Related words

*steh₂-(ine-pro)sta(gmq-osw)stá(non)stān(gml)*stāną(gem-pro)stånda(Swedish)staanda(gmq-osw)standa(Old Norse)stehen(German)staan(Dutch)stå(Danish)stå(Norwegian Bokmål)stand(English)stō(la)stå(Norwegian Nynorsk)schteh(Pennsylvania German)

Descendant words

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