staw

English

Etymology

Compare Danish staae (“to stand”).

Verb

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

  1. (Britain, dialectal, 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *stavъ.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /staf/
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Noun

staw m inan (diminutive stawik)

  1. pond
  2. (anatomy) joint

Declension
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
  • stawowy

Further reading
  • staw in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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