Steen

• As a general Germanic surname, from Dutch Steen, West Flemish van der steen, Danish Steen, Swedish Steen, Norwegian Steen. Doublet of Stone and Stein. Compare Staines.
• As a Scottish surname, shortened from Stephen.
• As an Irish and Scottish Gaelic surname, shortened from mac Stiamhna (“son of Stephen”), usually Anglicized as McStephen, McStein.

Steen (plural Steens)

1. A surname from Germanic, equivalent to English Stone, equivalent of Peter or Peters (Petros - stone, rock)

   Synonym: Sten

• Steen's Bridge

Early Afrikaans, elliptically from steendruiven (“stone grapes”), from steen (“stone”) + druiven (“grapes”), plural of druif.

Steen (countable and uncountable, plural Steens)

1. (South Africa) Chenin blanc, a variety of white wine.

• Stään (eastern Moselle Franconian, except Westerwald)
• Stein (Kölsch; Westerwald)

From Old High German stein.

• IPA^(key): /ʃteːn/

Steen m (plural Steen, diminutive Steenche)

1. (Ripuarian, western Moselle Franconian) stone

From Old Norse Steinn, from steinn (“stone”). Cognate with Norwegian Stein and Swedish Sten.

Steen

1. a male given name
2. (rare) a surname

• Sten, Torsten

• [1] Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 26 205 males with the given name Steen and 1698 persons with the surname Steen have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1950s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

From steen.

• IPA^(key): /steːn/
• Hyphenation: Steen
• Rhymes: -eːn

Steen

1. a surname

• Sten, Stein

From Middle Low German stên, from Old Saxon stēn, from Proto-West Germanic *stain, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz. More at stone.

• IPA^(key): /steːn/, /ʃtɛɪ̯n/

Steen m (plural Stenen)

1. stone

• stenerg
• stenig

• xtayn (Wiesemann spelling)

From Central Franconian Stein, from Middle High German stein, from Old High German stein, from Proto-West Germanic *stain, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz, from Proto-Indo-European *steyh₂- (“something hard”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃteːn/
• Rhymes: -eːn
• Syllabification: Steen

Steen m (plural Steen, diminutive Steenche)

1. stone

   Das is hart wie en Steen.

   This is hard as a stone.

2. (board games) stone (playing piece made of any hard material)

From Middle High German and Old High German stein, from Proto-West Germanic *stain, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz. Cognates include German Stein, Dutch steen, English stone, Swedish sten.

The alternation between the stems Steen and Steng is due to the Luxembourgish velarisation of -n- that took place only in open syllables. (The plural used to have the ending -e, as it still does in German.) Similar alternations are found in some other nouns (e.g. Latäin, Schwäin, Wäin), but Steen is the only one that retains distinct stems for singular and plural.

• IPA^(key): /ʃteːn/
  • Rhymes: -eːn

Steen m (plural Steng, diminutive Steenchen or Stengchen)

1. (uncountable, geology) stone (substance, material)
2. stone (piece of rock), pebble
3. (precious) stone, gemstone
4. (botany) stone (of fruit)
5. (medicine) gallstone, kidney stone

Steen

1. a surname

From Old Frisian stēn, from Proto-West Germanic *stain. Cognates include West Frisian stien, English stone, Swedish sten, and German Stein.

• IPA^(key): /steːn/
• Hyphenation: Steen
• Rhymes: -eːn

Steen m (plural Stene)

1. stone, rock

• Marron C. Fort (2015) “Steen”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN