Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

stonen

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sto-nen
IPA

6

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Consisting or made of stone.

Archaic

Example Sentences

"[…] And up these well-worn blocks of stone I came when I first ran alone, The stonen stairs beclimb'd the mound, Ere father put a foot to ground, […]"

Etymology

From Middle English stonen, alteration (due to stone) of earlier stenen, from Old English stǣnen (“stony; of stone, hard as stone; stone, made of stone, built of stone”), from Proto-West Germanic *stainīn, from Proto-Germanic *stainīnaz (“made of stone”), equivalent to stone + -en. Cognate with Dutch stenen (“stonen”), German Low German stenen (“stonen”), German steinen (“stonen”).

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: stonen, stǣnen, *stainīn, *stainīnaz
Suffix: stone

Usage

Archaic

Inflected Forms

more stonen (comparative) most stonen (superlative)

Questions

What does stonen mean?: Consisting or made of stone.
Where does stonen come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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