stæner

Old English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Formed on analogy with other fossilised z-stem plurals (e.g. Old English hæteru (“clothing”), Old English sċerero/sċeruro (“scissors”), Old English sunor (“swine herd”), etc.);[1] perhaps hearkening back to a Proto-West Germanic *stainiʀu. Equivalent to stān +‎ -ru.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈstæː.ner/

Noun

stǣner n pl (Northumbrian)

  1. stony ground
    (gloss) petrōsa
    • mid 10th c., Aldred, Lindisfarne Gospel Gloss, Matthew 13:20
      Sēðe sōðlīċe ofer stǣner sāwende wæs, ðis is sēðe word ġehērde, & sōna mið glædnisse onfēng ðætt.
      He who was indeed sowing seed over stony ground, this is who heard the word, and immediately received it with joy.

Declension

Strong a-stem:

singular plural
nominative — stǣner
accusative — stǣner
genitive — stǣnera
dative — stǣnerum

Strong a-stem:

singular plural
nominative — stǣneru
accusative — stǣneru
genitive — stǣnera
dative — stǣnerum

Descendants

  • Middle English: *stanere
    • English: stanner, stanners (normalised with plural -s)
    • ⇒ Middle English: stanry, stannri (“stony, full of pips”, adjective)

References

  1. ^ Hogg, Richard; Fulk, R. D. (2011), A Grammar of Old English, volume 2: Morphology, Oxford: Blackwell, →ISBN, page 60
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