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Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse stakkr, from Proto-Germanic *stakkaz.
Noun
stak
- stack
Declension
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
stak
- singular past indicative of steken
Anagrams
German
Pronunciation
Verb
stak
- (archaic) first/third-person singular preterite of stecken
1824, Heinrich Clauren [pseudonym; Carl Gottlieb Samuel Heun], Der Blutschatz:Großenau, das prächtige Rittergut – kam er mit vollen Händen – der Besitzer stak bis über beide Ohren in Schulden, der schlug gewiß los; […]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Icelandic
Etymology
From stakur.
Pronunciation
Noun
stak n (genitive singular staks, nominative plural stök)
- (set theory) an element, a member; (one of the objects in a set)
- Synonym: íbúi
Declension
Derived terms
- algebrulega samoka stak (“algebraic conjugate”)
- dæmigert stak (“typical element”)
- efsta stak (“greatest element, largest element, maximum element”)
- einingarstak (“identity element, one, unit element”)
- einsleitt stak (“homogeneous element”)
- fastastak (“fixed element, invariant element”)
- frjálst stak (“free element”)
- frumstak (“prime, prime element, Ur-element”)
- frumstætt stak (“primitive element”)
- fyrsta stak (“first element, least element, minimum element, smallest element”)
- grunnstak (“basic element, basis element”)
- hástak (“maximal element”)
- heilstak, heilt stak (“integral element”)
- hlutlaust stak (“identity element, neutral element”)
- hornalínustak (“diagonal element”)
- hægra einingarstak (“right identity”)
- hæsta stak (“greatest element, largest element, maximum element”)
- kyrrastak, kyrrt stak (“fixed element, invariant element”)
See also
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old Norse stakkr, from Proto-Germanic *stakkaz.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
stak (plural stakkes)
- stack (pile of hay, grain, straw, etc.)
- (rare) stack (coastal landform)
Derived terms
Descendants
References
Etymology 2
See stake.
Noun
stak
- Alternative form of stake