stählen

See also: stahlen and Stählen

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʃtɛːlən/, [ˈʃtɛː.lən], [ˈʃteː-], [-l̩n]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Homophone: stehlen (some speakers, especially northern and eastern regions)

Etymology 1

From Middle High German stælen, contraction of earlier stehelen. By surface analysis, Stahl (steel) +‎ -en.

Verb

stählen (weak, third-person singular present stählt, past tense stählte, past participle gestählt, auxiliary haben)

  1. to toughen, harden (e.g. one's body, one's will power)
Conjugation
Derived terms
  • Stählung

Etymology 2

See the main entry.

Adjective

stählen (strong nominative masculine singular stählener, not comparable)

  1. obsolete form of stählern (steelen) [chiefly until 17th c., occasionally until 19th c.]

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

stählen

  1. first/third-person plural subjunctive II of stehlen