different between stane vs stang

English

Etymology

From Middle English stan, stane, a form of stone, from Old English st?n (“stone”). More at stone.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?n
• IPA^(key): /ste?n/

Noun

stane (countable and uncountable, plural stanes)

1. A dialectal or obsolete form of stone.

Anagrams

• Antes, Teans, Tenas, antes, etnas, nates, neats, netas, senat, stean

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English st?n, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz.

Noun

stane (plural stanes)

1. Alternative form of stone

Etymology 2

From stane, alternative form of stone.

Verb

stane

1. Alternative form of stonen

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English stan, stane, the Northern ME form of stone, from Old English st?n (“stone”), from Proto-Germanic *stainaz.

Noun

stane (plural stanes)

1. stone

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: st?ng, IPA^(key): /stæ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Etymology 1

From Middle English stange, partly from Old Norse st?ng; partly from Old English stæng, steng, stenge (“pole, rod, bar, stake, stick”); both from Proto-Germanic *stang?, *stangiz (“bar, rod”), from Proto-Indo-European *steng?-, *steg?- (“to stick, sting, prick, be stiff”).

Noun

stang (plural stangs)

1. (Wicca, paganism) A forked ritual staff.
2. (archaic or obsolete) A long bar; a pole; a shaft; a stake.
   • 1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

     Gripping the stang, she peered / At ghostly trees. Bus stopped. Bus disappeared.

3. (archaic or obsolete) In land measure, a pole, rod, or perch.
   • 1880, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels into several Remote Nations of the World - Part I, Chapter II (Page 15)

     These fields were intermingled with woods of half a stang,*... (with the corresponding footnote: "An old word for a perch, sixteen feet and a half. These small woods were therefore eight feet and a quarter.")

Derived terms

• stang ball
• ride the stang

Etymology 2

From Old Norse stanga (“prick, goad”).

Verb

stang (third-person singular simple present stangs, present participle stanging, simple past and past participle stanged)

1. (intransitive, Scotland) To shoot with pain, to sting.
2. (transitive, Scotland) To spear; to sting.

Etymology 3

Verb

stang

1. (dialect, rare) simple past tense of sting

Etymology 4

Noun

stang (plural stangs)

1. (slang, US) Short for "Mustang", a brand of automobile produced by the Ford Motor Company.

Anagrams

• 'ganst, Gnats, Tangs, Tsang, angst, gnast, gnat's, gnats, tangs

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse st?ng.

Noun

stang c (singular definite stangen, plural indefinite stænger)

1. bar
2. rod
3. pole
4. crossbar

Inflection

Derived terms

• stangdrukken (adjective)
• stangspring n
• stangtøj n

References

• “stang” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??

Noun

stang m (plural stangen, diminutive stangetje n)

1. bar

See also

• baar f
• blok n
• staaf f

Anagrams

• angst

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse st?ng

Noun

stang f or m (definite singular stanga or stangen, indefinite plural stenger, definite plural stengene)

1. a bar, pole, rod, lever, staff, stick, shaft
2. rod, 3.1374 metres

Derived terms

• flaggstang
• jernstang

See also

• stong (Nynorsk)

References

• “stang” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “stang_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Swedish

Verb

stang

1. past tense of stinga.

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse st?ng, from Proto-Germanic *stang?.

Noun

stang f (definite singular stanga, dative stangen, definite plural stängren)

1. bar, rod, pole

Derived terms

• fällstang
• staang