different between swollen vs stollen

English

Etymology

From Middle English swollen, i-swolle, y-swolle, yswolle, ?eswollen, from Old English swollen, ?eswollen, from Proto-Germanic *swullanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *swellan? (“to swell”). Cognate with West Frisian swollen (“swollen”), Dutch gezwollen (“swollen”), German geschwollen (“swollen”), Swedish svullen (“swollen”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sw??l?n/
• Rhymes: -??l?n

Adjective

swollen (comparative more swollen, superlative most swollen)

1. protuberant or abnormally distended (as by injury or disease).

Translations

Verb

swollen

1. past participle of swell

See also

• swole

Anagrams

• Nowells, nowells

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Stollen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?l?n/
• Rhymes: -?l?n

Noun

stollen (countable and uncountable, plural stollens)

1. A traditional German cake eaten at Christmas time, made with nuts, raisins and other dried fruits.

Translations

See also

• Wikipedia article on stollen

Anagrams

• Nostell, tells on

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?.l?(n)/
• Hyphenation: stol?len
• Rhymes: -?l?n

Etymology 1

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Verb

stollen

1. (intransitive) to coagulate, to solidify, to congeal

2. (transitive) to coagulate, to solidify

Inflection

Derived terms

• stolling

Descendants

• Afrikaans: stol

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

stollen

1. Plural form of stol

Swedish

Noun

stollen

1. definite singular of stolle
2. definite singular of stoll