Stelle

See also: stelle and stèlle

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Stelle.

Proper noun

Stelle (plural Stelles)

1. A surname from German.

Derived terms

• Stelton

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Stelle is the 37341^st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 597 individuals. Stelle is most common among White (86.26%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Stelle”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

German

Etymology

Back-formation from stellen, verb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃtɛlə/
• Rhymes: -ɛlə

• Audio:

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• Audio (Austria):

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• Homophone: Ställe

Noun

Stelle f (genitive Stelle, plural Stellen)

1. place, stead, location, position, lieu
2. position (as a job), employment
3. digit, decimal place

Declension

Declension of Stelle [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Stelle	die	Stellen
genitive	einer	der	Stelle	der	Stellen
dative	einer	der	Stelle	den	Stellen
accusative	eine	die	Stelle	die	Stellen

Hyponyms

• Arbeitsstelle
• Baustelle
• freie Stelle
• Haltestelle
• Landestelle
• Nachkommastelle
• Nullstelle
• offene Stelle
• Planstelle
• Schwachstelle
• Tankstelle
• Vermittlungsstelle
• Vorkommastelle

 

Related terms

• einstellig
• mehrstellig
• Stellenangebot
• Stellenanwärter
• Stellenausschreibung
• Stellenbeschreibung
• Stellenbewerber
• Stellenvergabe
• Stellenvermittlung
• Stellgleis
• zweistellig

 

Descendants

• → Yiddish: שטעלע (shtele)

Further reading

• “Stelle” in Duden online
• “Stelle” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Stelle”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891