staon
Low German edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Low German stân, from Proto-Germanic *stāną.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
staon (third-person singular present steit or steht, preterite stünn or stunn, past participle staon) (Westphalian, Mecklenburgisch, Altmärkisch)
- to stand (be upright)
- (with infinitive) to stand somewhere doing something (often with a progressive sense)
- Wat steis de dao to kieken?
- Why are you standing there and looking? / What are you looking at?