staund

• staand, stan, stand, staun, stawn

Inherited from Middle Scots stand, from Northern Middle English stand, stande, from Old English standan, from Proto-West Germanic *standan, from Proto-Germanic *standaną, from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-.

• IPA^(key): /stɑn(d)/, /stɔn(d)/

staund (third-person singular simple present staunds, present participle staundin, simple past stuid, past participle stuiden)

1. To stand; to be standing:
   1. To be or become upright.
      • 1983, William Lorimer, transl., The New Testament in Scots, Edinburgh: Canongate, published 2001, →ISBN, →OCLC, Luke 4:16-17, page 106:

        Sae he cam tae Nazareth, whaur he had been fuishen up, an on the Sabbath he gaed til the sýnagogue, as he was in yuiss tae dae, an stuid up for tae read the portion o Scriptur. The row at the bedral raxed him wis the Buik o the Prophet Isaiah, an he onrowed it till he cam tae the place whaur it says: […]

        Then he came to Nazareth, where he had been born, and on Sabbath he went into the synagogue, as he was in the habit of doing, and stood up to read the portion of Scripture. The scroll that the beadle handed him was the Book of the Prophet Isaiah, and he unrolled it until he came to the spot where it says: […]

   2. To remain upright and stationary.
   3. To place or be placed upright.
2. To remain or stop; to be stationary or constant:
   1. To appear or show up to an event or meeting.
   2. To hesitate; to be reluctant (because of).
   3. To support or guarantee; to provide assistance or assurance.
   4. (rare) To take place (at) or last (for) a time.
3. To cost; to amount to (compare English come to)

staund (plural staunds)

1. A stand (act of standing).
2. A stand (booth or stall at a market)
3. A pause, rest or stop (from work or travel)
4. A complete set, especially of clothes.

• “stand, n., v.¹”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.