stam

• IPA^(key): /stæm/

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

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

stam

1. (UK, dialect, obsolete) Confusion.

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

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

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stam (plural stamme)

1. tribe

• IPA^(key): /stɑm/

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• Hyphenation: stam
• Rhymes: -ɑm

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

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

• Afrikaans: stam
• → Papiamentu: stam

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

stam

1. inflection of stammen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

• mast, tams

From Old Norse stammr.

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

1. which stutters or stammers

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

1. European chub (Squalius cephalus)

   Synonym: årbuk

• “stam” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• mast, samt, tams

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

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stam c

1. trunk of a tree
2. (linguistics) stem
3. tribe, clan
4. (taxonomy) phylum

• stam in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

• Mats, mast, mats, samt

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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

• stamfaar

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