stam

See also: Stam and stäm

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stæm/

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Verb

stam (third-person singular simple present stams, present participle stamming, simple past and past participle stammed)

1. (UK, dialect, obsolete, transitive) To confound.

Noun

stam

1. (UK, dialect, obsolete) Confusion.

Anagrams

• Mats, tams, amts, mats, TAMs, Mast, mast, MTAs, ATMs, AMTs, MATs, mast-, MAST, ASTM, MATS

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch stam, from Middle Dutch stam, from Old Dutch *stam, from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *stamniz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stam/

• Audio:

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Noun

stam (plural stamme)

1. tribe

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stɑm/

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• Hyphenation: stam
• Rhymes: -ɑm

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch stam, from Old Dutch *stam, from Proto-West Germanic *stamni, from Proto-Germanic *stamniz.

Noun

stam m (plural stammen, diminutive stammetje n)

1. trunk of a tree

   Synonym: boomstam

2. (linguistics) stem
3. tribe, clan

   Synonym: volksstam

4. (biology, taxonomy) phylum

   Hypernym: rijk

   Hyponym: klasse

Derived terms

• boomstam
• stamhoofd
• stamhouder
• stammen
• stamvader
• volksstam

 

Descendants

• Afrikaans: stam
• → Papiamentu: stam

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

stam

1. inflection of stammen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

Anagrams

• mast, tams

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse stammr.

Adjective

stam (masculine and feminine stam, neuter stamt, definite singular and plural stamme)

1. which stutters or stammers

Etymology 2

Noun

stam m (definite singular stammen, indefinite plural stammar, definite plural stammane)

1. European chub (Squalius cephalus)

   Synonym: årbuk

References

• “stam” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• mast, samt, tams

Swedish

en stam (sense 1)

Etymology

From Old Swedish staffn, stampn, from Old Norse stafn. Cognate with Danish stavn.

Pronunciation

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Noun

stam c

2. a trunk (of a tree)

   Synonym: trädstam

   trädets stam

   the trunk the of tree

3. a stem (of a plant, more generally – see usage notes)
4. a stem (central part from which things branch off, sometimes abstractly)
   1. (anatomy) a stem

      hjärnstammen

      the brain stem

   2. (taxonomy) a phylum
   3. (linguistics) a stem
5. a tribe

   en indianstam

   an Indian tribe

6. a population (of animals, in an area (often a country))

   den svenska vargstammen

   the Swedish wolf population

Usage notes

The intuition in Swedish is the opposite of that in English, with a stam normally being a tree trunk (while also being the general word for stem). A stem of a herbaceous (non-woody) plant is a stjälk (“stalk”), and only a stam in a more technical sense.

Declension

Declension of stam
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	stam	stammen	stammar	stammarna
Genitive	stams	stammens	stammars	stammarnas

Derived terms

• hjärnstam
• stamcell
• stamtavla
• trädstam

See also

• inföding
• klan
• stjälk

References

• stam in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• stam in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• stam in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• stam in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Anagrams

• Mats, mast, mats, samt

West Frisian

Etymology

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Noun

stam c (plural stammen, diminutive stamke)

1. trunk of a tree
2. stem (of a plant)
3. stem (of a word)
4. family, genus
5. tribe, clan

Derived terms

• stamfaar

Further reading

• “stam”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011