stav
Swedish
noun
Definitions
- a staff, a rod
- a letter (in the runic alphabet, sometimes also in the Latin alphabet)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Swedish staver inherited from Old Norse stafr (staff, stick, rod, support) inherited from Proto-Norse ᛋᛏᚼᛒᚼ inherited from Proto-Germanic *stabaz (staff, stick).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*stabaz
Gloss
staff, stick
Concept
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- airstaff English
- bedstaff English
- bookstaff English
- broomstaff English
- cleystaff English
- constaff English
- cowlstaff English
- destaff English
- doorstaff English
- flagstaff English
- forestaff English
- groundstaff English
- jackstaff English
- nonstaff English
- overstaff English
- pikestaff English
- ploughstaff English
- plowstaff English
- quarterstaff English
- restaff English
- staff English
- staffable English
- staffer English
- staffless English
- staffman English
- staffroom English
- tipstaff English
- understaff English
- waitstaff English
- whipstaff English
- Bettelstab German
- Bischofsstab German
- Buchstabe German
- Kontrollstab German
- Marschallstab German
- Maßstab German
- Pürierstab German
- Regelstab German
- Stab German
- Stabhochspringer German
- Stabhochspringerin German
- Stabkirche German
- Stabreim German
- Stabsarzt German
- Steuerstab German
- Stäbchen German
- Wanderstab German
- Zauberstab German
- stáb Hungarian
- staff Italian
- staf Dutch, Flemish
- штаб Russian
- *stebʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *stabaz Proto-Germanic
- gång Swedish
- kyrka Swedish
- skida Swedish
- skidstav Swedish
- stab Swedish
- stavgång Swedish
- stavkyrka Swedish
- スタッフ Japanese
- sztab Polish
- sztaba Polish
- stakkar Norwegian Nynorsk
- distæf Old English
- stæf Old English
- staf Middle English
- Stafangr Old Norse
- bókstafr Old Norse
- stafkarl Old Norse
- stafr Old Norse
- stab Danish
- štap Serbo-Croatian
- штап Serbo-Croatian
- stafur Icelandic
- stab Old High German
- stavur Faroese
- stab, stap Middle High German
- 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐍆𐍃 Gothic
- штаб Macedonian
- staver Old Swedish
- 스태프 Korean
- stav Westrobothnian
- staf Old Frisian
- staf Old Danish
- ᛋᛏᚼᛒᚼ Proto-Norse