Stab
German edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German stap, stab, from Old High German stab, from Proto-West Germanic *stab.
Cognate with English staff, Dutch staf, Swedish stav, Old Norse stafr. The meaning co-workers is secondary: in the German word Generalstab (“General Staff”) the meaning changed from the staff as a symbol of authority to the group of military officers and later to any group of co-workers.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Stab m (strong, genitive Stabes or Stabs, plural Stäbe, diminutive Stäbchen n)
Declension edit
Declension of Stab [masculine, strong]
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
- Abstandsstab
- Abtsstab
- Amtsstab
- Bischofsstab
- Buchstabe
- den Stab übergeben
- Dirigentenstab
- Eisenstab
- Fahnenstab
- Feldstab
- Führungsstab
- Generalstab
- Hauptstab
- Heeresstab
- Herrscherstab
- Hirtenstab
- Holzstab
- Kontrollstab
- Krummstab
- Kupferstab
- Lilienstab
- Marschallstab
- Messingstab
- Messstab
- Metallstab
- Pflanzenstab
- Rahmenstab
- Regelstab
- Reisestab
- Rosenstab
- Rührstab
- Sattelstab
- Silberstab
- Stabbau
- Stabheuschrecke
- Stabhochspringen
- Stabhochsprung
- Stabkirche
- Stabplanke
- Stabrahmen
- Stabsoffizier
- Stabsunterkunft
- Stabübergabe
- Steuerstab
- Stützstab
- Torstab
- Zauberstab
- Zaunstab
- Zeigestab
- Zugstab
Descendants edit
References edit
- ^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Stab”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN
Further reading edit
- “Stab” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Stab” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Stab” in Duden online
- “Stab” in OpenThesaurus.de
Stab on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de- “Stab” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
