stein

From a regional use[1] of German Stein (“stone”). Probably a clipping of Steingut (“stoneware”) or Steinkrug (“stone pitcher”). Compare Old English stǣna (“stone jug, a pot of stone or earth”). Doublet of stone. More at stean.

• IPA^(key): /staɪn/

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  Rhymes: -aɪn

stein (plural steins)

1. A beer mug, usually made of ceramic or glass.
   • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, “Zollenstein”, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 731476803, page 40:

     So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein—coloring and all. Backed by towering hills, […] a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

   • 1974, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

     A gnome-size German civilian with a red von Hindenburg mustache is dispensing steins of what looks to be mostly head.

• Stein
• steinstrasse

• beer glass
• tankard

• Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1.

• Beer stein on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

• stern

Possibly a corruption of stern. At any rate from Proto-Germanic *sternǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr.

stein

1. star
   • 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:

     Stein. Stella.

• IPA^(key): /steiːn/

stein

1. indefinite accusative singular of steinn

From Old High German stein, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz.

• IPA^(key): /s̠tɛi̯n/

stein m (plural steine)

1. stone
   • circa 1200, Walther von der Vogelweide, Ich saz ūf eime steine:

     Ich saz ūf eime steine
     Und dahte bein mit beine.

     I was sitting on a stone
     Putting one leg over the other.

From Old Norse steinn, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz.

• IPA^(key): /stæɪn/

  Rhymes: -æɪn

stein (neuter singular stein, definite singular and plural steine)

1. (slang) stoned, under the influence of cannabis

stein m (definite singular steinen, indefinite plural steiner, definite plural steinene)

1. stone
2. pip (in citrus fruit, grapes)

• sten (Bokmål)

stein

1. imperative of steine

• “stein” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• (noun): steidn
• (adverb): steinsens

From Old Norse steinn, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz. Akin to English stone.

• IPA^(key): /stɛɪːn/

stein m (definite singular steinen, indefinite plural steinar, definite plural steinane)

1. stone
2. pip (e.g. in citrus fruit, grapes, cherries)

stein (indefinite singular stein, definite singular and plural steine)

1. (slang) stoned, under the influence of cannabis

stein

1. (colloquial) Used as an intensifier; completely

   Noko er stein hakkande gale?

• “stein” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-West Germanic *stain, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz.

stein m

1. stone

• agatstein
• fiurstein
• flinsstein
• griozstein
• salzstein
• santstein
• senkilstein
• steinofan

• Middle High German: stein
  • Alemannic German: Steei

    Swabian: Schdoi, Schdoa

  • Bavarian: Schdoa, Schdaa
  • Central Franconian: Stään, Steen, Stein

    Hunsrik: Steen, xtayn

    Transylvanian Saxon: Stien

  • German: Stein
  • Luxembourgish: Steen
  • Vilamovian: śtan
  • Yiddish: שטיין‎ (shteyn)

stein

1. indefinite accusative singular of steinn