staw

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English

Etymology

Compare Danish stå (to stand).

Verb

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Polish

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Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Polish staw.

Noun

staw m inan (diminutive stawek or stawik)

  1. pond
  2. (anatomy) joint
Declension
Derived terms
adjective

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

staw f

  1. genitive plural of stawa

Verb

staw

  1. second-person singular imperative of stawić

Further reading

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