stapel

See also: Stapel

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstaː.pəl/

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• Hyphenation: sta‧pel

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch stapel, from Old Dutch stapal, from Proto-West Germanic *stapul, from Proto-Germanic *stapulaz. Doublet of etappe.

Noun

stapel m (plural stapels, diminutive stapeltje n)

1. pile
2. (archaic) basis, foundation, pedestal
3. (historical, trade) stockpile, stock
4. (lutherie) sound post

   Synonym: ziel

Descendants

• → Caribbean Javanese: setabel
• → Papiamentu: stapel

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch stapel, perhaps ultimately from a lost derivative of Proto-Germanic *stapiz (“step, stride”), referring to an insect that moves by jumps and strides.

Noun

stapel m (plural stapels)

1. (obsolete, dialectal) cricket (or alternatively, grasshopper)
   • 1597, Karel van Mander, “Vijfd' Ecloga, oft Boer-liedt”, in Bucolica en Georgica, dat is, Ossen-stal en Landt-werck, page 30:

     Soo lang Wildt swijn berg-top, en visch de vliet / Bemint: oock Bye van Thijm haer aes geniet / En Stapel oock van douw', soo langh sal blijven: / V eer en naem, en loflijck groot beclijven.

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   • 1636, Johan de Brune (de Oude), "Emblemata X", Emblemata of Zinne-werck, page 80.

     De godvruchtighe, zeght erghens een, zijn ghelijck de mieren, die eerst moede, dan blijde zijn: maer de godlooze, gelijck de stapels, of sprinck-hanen, die eerst zinghen, en dan droeve en bekommert zijn.

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Derived terms

• stapeldol
• stapelgek
• stapelverliefd

Related terms

• stap
• stappen

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

stapel

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

Anagrams

• plaste

German

Pronunciation

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Verb

stapel

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

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English stapol (“basis, pillar”).

Noun

stapel (plural stapels)

1. post, staff, stake
2. staple (U-shaped metal fastener)

Alternative forms

• stapil, stapile, staple, stapul, stable

Descendants

• English: staple
• Scots: steeple

References

• “stāpel, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Noun

stapel (plural stapels)

1. Alternative form of staple

Swedish

stapel / stapelbädd (sense 3)

stapel / stapelbädd (sense 3)

Etymology

From Old Norse stǫpull (“column, pillar”).

Noun

stapel c

1. a tall stack

   en stapel av lådor

   a tall stack of boxes

2. a bar (in a bar graph)
4. (nautical) stocks

   Synonym: stapelbädd

   Tävlingen går av stapeln på tisdag

   The competition will be held [goes off the stocks] on Tuesday (idiom)

Declension

Declension of stapel
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	stapel	stapeln	staplar	staplarna
Genitive	stapels	stapelns	staplars	staplarnas

Derived terms

• gå av stapeln
• klockstapel
• stapelavlöpning
• stapeldiagram
• stapelvara

Related terms

• stapla

Descendants

• → Finnish: taapeli

See also

• slip (“slipway, slip”)
• trave (“neat stack”)

References

• stapel in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• stapel in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• stapel in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• stapel in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Anagrams

• spelat