stell

EnglishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle English stellen, from Old English stellan (“to give a place to, set, place”), from Proto-West Germanic *stalljan (“to put, position”), from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to place, put, post, stand”). Cognate with Dutch stellen (“to set, put”), Low German stellen (“to put, place, fix”), German stellen (“to set, place, provide”), Old English steall (“position, place”). More at stall.

VerbEdit

stell (third-person singular simple present stells, present participle stelling, simple past and past participle stelled or stold)

(transitive, Britain dialectal, Scotland) To place in position; set up, fix, plant; prop, mount.
- 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
  How he escaped a broken neck in that dreadful place no human being will ever ken. The sweat, he has told me, stood in cold drops upon his forehead; he scarcely was aware of the saddle in which he sat, and his eyes were stelled in his head so that he saw nothing but the sky ayont him.
(transitive, obsolete) To portray; delineate; display.
- 1594, William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece, 1443–44:
  To this well-painted piece is Lucrece come,
  
  To find a face where all distress is stelled.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 24:
  Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd
  
  Thy beauty's form in table of my heart ...

Etymology 2Edit

Alteration of stall, after the verb to stell.

NounEdit

stell (plural stells)

(archaic) A place; station.
A stall; a fold for cattle.
(Scotland) A prop; a support, as for the feet in standing or climbing.
(Scotland) A still.
- 1786, Robert Burns, "The Author's Earnest Cry And Prayer":
  Paint Scotland greetin owre her thrissle;
  
  Her mutchkin stowp as toom's a whissle;
  
  An' damn'd excisemen in a bussle,
  
  Seizin a stell,
  
  Triumphant crushin't like a mussel,
  
  Or limpet shell!
- 1791, Robert Burns, "Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation":
  The English stell we could disdain,
  
  Secure in valour's station;
  
  But English gold has been our bane-
  
  Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!

Related termsEdit

stall

AnagramsEdit

Tells, tells

GermanEdit

VerbEdit

stell

singular imperative of stellen

IcelandicEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Borrowed from Danish stel.

PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): /stɛlː/
Rhymes: -ɛlː

NounEdit

stell n (genitive singular stells, nominative plural stell)

service (set of matching dishes or untensils)
set of false teeth

DeclensionEdit

declension of stell

	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
n-s	singular		plural
nominative	stell	stellið	stell	stellin
accusative	stell	stellið	stell	stellin
dative	stelli	stellinu	stellum	stellunum
genitive	stells	stellsins	stella	stellanna