different between stob vs stod

English

Etymology

Middle English; variant of stub.

Noun

stob (plural stobs)

1. (dialectal, Appalachia, Northern England, Scotland) A stick, twig or peg, especially in roofing or matting.
   • 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.11:

     He climbed from the skiff and tied up at a stob and labored up the thick grassless bank toward the arches where the bridge went to earth.

2. A small post for supporting paling.
3. A wedge in coal-mining.

Verb

stob (third-person singular simple present stobs, present participle stobbing, simple past and past participle stobbed)

1. (dialect, Appalachia, Northern England, Scotland) To stab.
2. (dialect, Northern England, Scotland) To roof with stob-thatch.
3. (dialect, Northern England, Scotland) To make mats with a stob tool.

Anagrams

• 'bots, Bots., bost, bots

German

Pronunciation

Verb

stob

1. first/third-person singular preterite of stieben

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

Perhaps of Germanic origin, connected with English stab.

Noun

stob m (genitive singular stuib, plural stoban)

1. stake (pointed stick)
2. stump
3. prick, thorn

Synonyms

• (thorn): droigheann

Verb

stob (past stob, future stobaidh, verbal noun stobadh, past participle stobte)

1. prick, prod
2. push, thrust

English

Noun

stod (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of stød

Anagrams

• DOTs, DTOs, TODs, dost, dots, tods

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?sd?oð?], [?sd?o?]

Verb

stod

1. past tense of stå

Middle English

Verb

stod

1. first/third-person singular past of standen

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• sto

Verb

stod

1. simple past of stå

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

stod

1. past of stå

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *st?d?, from Proto-Indo-European *steh?- (“stand, set”). Cognate with Old High German stuot (“herd of horses”) (German Stute (“mare”)), Old Norse stóð (Swedish sto (“mare”)). The Indo-European root is also the source of Albanian shtazë (“animal, beast”) and Old Church Slavonic ????? (stado, “herd”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sto?d/

Noun

st?d n

1. an enclosure for breeding horses
2. a horse or horses used for breeding

Descendants

• Middle English: stode, stod, stude, stud
  • English: stud
  • Scots: stod, stud, stude, stuid
  • Yola: sthit

Verb

st?d

1. first/third-person singular preterite of standan

Swedish

Pronunciation 1

• IPA^(key): /stu?d/

Noun

stod c

1. a statue

Declension

Synonyms

• bildstod
• staty

Pronunciation 2

• IPA^(key): /stu?(d)/
• IPA^(key): /stu??/

Verb

stod

1. past tense of stå.