styen

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

Uncountable

"Huge abutments o' styen, aw think they are call'd"
"Ye wad thought his feet was myed o' styen, He gaw sic thuds wi' dancin-o"
"Te kill a fish, or owt else, thoo Must hev a heart o' styen, man"
"He's warked as debbity an' been night lost— Haaf barried under sum greet faall o' styen"

From Northern Middle English stan, stane, from Old English stān, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz. Cognate with German Stein, Swedish sten, Dutch steen.

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