Wiktionary

staw

English

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Etymology

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Compare Danish stå (“to stand”).

Verb

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staw (third-person singular simple present staws, present participle stawing, simple past and past participle stawed)

  1. (UK, dialect, intransitive) To be fixed or set; to stay.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “staw”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

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Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈstaf/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -af
  • Syllabification: staw

Etymology 1

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Inherited from Old Polish staw.

Noun

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staw m inan (diminutive stawek or stawik)

  1. pond
  2. (anatomy) joint
Declension
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Declension of staw
singular plural
nominative staw stawy
genitive stawu stawów
dative stawowi stawom
accusative staw stawy
instrumental stawem stawami
locative stawie stawach
vocative stawie stawy
Derived terms
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(adjective):

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

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staw f

  1. genitive plural of stawa

Verb

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staw

  1. second-person singular imperative of stawić

Further reading

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  • staw in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • staw in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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