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German
Etymology
Calque of Danish stavrim, Stab (“letter”) + Reim (“rhyme”).
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Noun
Stabreim m (strong, genitive Stabreimes or Stabreims, plural Stabreime)
- stave-rhyme, alliteration
- Synonym: Alliteration
- Antonym: Endreim
1874, Carl Sirker, “Der Stabreim bei den neueren deutschen Dichtern”, in Max Moltke, editor, Deutscher Sprachwart, Zeitschrift für Kunde und Kunst der Sprache, page 53:Der Stabreim oder die Alliteration ist die älteste germanische Reimart, die unsere Vorfahren schon aus der frühern gemeinsamen Heimath der indogermanischen Völker im Osten mitgebracht zu haben scheinen.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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