Stein

Borrowed from German Stein. Doublet of Stone and Steen.

Stein (plural Steins)

1. A surname originating as a patronymic from a Scots diminutive of Stephen.
2. A surname from German Stein.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Stein is the 796th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 43,389 individuals. Stein is most common among White (94.4%) individuals.

• Tiens, inset, neist, nites, senti, set in, sient, snite, tines, tsine

• (Limburg) First attested as steyne in 1263. Derived from Middle Dutch stein (“stone building, castle”).
• (Zuid-Holland) First attested as steene in 1317. Named after Stein in Limburg.

• IPA^(key): /stɛi̯n/

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• Hyphenation: Stein
• Rhymes: -ɛi̯n

Stein n

1. A village and municipality of Limburg, Netherlands.

   Meronyms: Catsop, Berg aan de Maas, Elsloo, Kerensheide, Kleine Meers, Maasband, Meers, Nattenhoven, Nieuwdorp, Terhagen, Urmond, Veldschuur

2. A hamlet and former municipality of Krimpenerwaard, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

• Steindenaar
• Steins

• van Berkel, Gerard, Samplonius, Kees (2018) “stein”, in Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard‎ (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN

Borrowed from German Stein.

Stein ?

1. a surname from German

From Middle High German stein, from Old High German stein, from Proto-West Germanic *stain, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz (“stone”), ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *steyh₂-.

Cognate with Yiddish שטיין (shteyn), Dutch steen, Low German Steen, West Frisian stien, English stone, Danish sten, Swedish sten, Norwegian stein, Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (stains).

• IPA^(key): /ʃtaɪn/

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• Rhymes: -aɪ̯n

Stein m (strong, genitive Steins or Steines, plural Steine, diminutive Steinchen n)

1. stone, rock

   Synonyms: Gestein, Gesteinsbrocken, Naturstein

2. any stone-like material such as brick or concrete
3. pit (core of a fruit)

   Synonym: Kern

4. (games) Short for Spielstein (“piece, token, tile”).
5. (historical) stone (unit of weight)
6. (colloquial, in the plural) money, bucks

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:Geld

7. (rare, regional) stein (type of beer mug)

   Synonyms: Bierkrug, Humpen

Stein m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Steins or (with an article) Stein, feminine genitive Stein, plural Steins)

1. a topographic or surname originating as an occupation

• “Stein” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Stein” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Stein” in Duden online
• “Stein” in OpenThesaurus.de
• Stein on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

• IPA^(key): /steiːn/
• Rhymes: -eiːn

Stein

1. accusative of Steinn

From Old Norse Steinn, from steinn (“stone”), whence also stein. Also a short form of compound names with the element. Cognate with Faroese Steinur, Icelandic Steinn, Swedish Sten, and Danish Steen, as well as English Stone.

• IPA^(key): /stɛɪːn/
• (North West) IPA^(key): [stæɪ̯ːɲ], [stɛɪ̯ːɲ]
• (South West) IPA^(key): [stɛ̝ɪ̯dn], [sta̝ɪ̯dn]

Stein m

1. a male given name from Old Norse, meaning “stone”

Patronymics:

• son of Stein: Steinsson
• daughter of Stein: Steinsdotter

• stein (“stone”)

• Eivind Vågslid (1988) Norderlendske fyrenamn (in Norwegian Nynorsk), →ISBN, page 333
• Ivar Aasen (1878) Norsk Navnebog, eller Samling af Mandsnavne og Kvindenavne‎ (in Norwegian Nynorsk), →ISBN, page 36
• Kristoffer Kruken, Ola Stemshaug (1995) Norsk personnamnleksikon, Oslo: Det Norske Samlaget, →ISBN
• Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 10 031 males with the given name Stein living in Norway on January 1st 2022. Accessed on 7th December, 2022.

Unadapted borrowing from German Stein.

• IPA^(key): /ʂtajn/
• Rhymes: -ajn
• Syllabification: Stein

Stein m pers

1. a male surname from German

Stein f (indeclinable)

1. a female surname from German

• Stein in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• “Stein”, in Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce [Internet dictionary of surnames in Poland], 2022

Borrowed from German Stein.

Stein m or f by sense

1. a surname from German

Borrowed from German Stein.

Stein m or f by sense

1. a surname from German