stel

From Middle Low German stel, stelle, from or related to the Old Saxon verb stellian (“to put, place”).

stel

1. chassis, skeleton, frame
   • 2017, Kirk Hamilton (Inge Arends), En lejemorders kugle, Lindhardt og Ringhof (→ISBN)

     Han havde et par briller med messingstel siddende yderst ude på næsen, ...

     He had a pair of brass-frame glasses sitting at the tip of his nose, ...

   • 2018, Bent Jørgensen, Børnenes bog om skildpadder og akvariefisk, Lindhardt og Ringhof, →ISBN:

     Det bedste akvarium er et såkaldt stel-akvarium. Det har et stel af rustfrit stål eller jern, bunden er også af metal, og på de fire sider er der med særligt kit indsat fire glasruder.

     The best aquarium is a so-called frame-aquarium. It has a frame of stainless steel or iron, the bottom is also of metal, and on the four sides, four glass panes are attached with a special kind of putty.

2. a collection of crockery with a shared theme or colour scheme

• IPA^(key): /stɛl/

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• Rhymes: -ɛl

From Middle Dutch stel. By surface analysis, deverbal from stellen.

stel n (plural stellen, diminutive stelletje n)

1. couple, pair
2. group, set, collection
3. (informal) a couple (of), a few

• → Caribbean Javanese: setèl
• → Papiamentu: stèl, stel

See stil.

stel (comparative steller, superlative stelst)

1. alternative form of stil

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

stel

1. inflection of stellen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

• Lets, slet

stel

1. inflection of stela:
   1. present
   2. imperative

• IPA^(key): /stel/

stel

1. singular imperative of stelan

stel

1. inflection of stela:
   1. first-person singular present indicative active
   2. second-person singular imperative active

From Old Swedish stirder, styrdher, from Old Norse stirðr, from Proto-Germanic *sterþjaz, [Term?], from Proto-Indo-European *ster (“strong, steady”).^[1]

The sound change of Old Norse /rð/ to /l/, which affected central and northern Sweden, is typically not reflected in writing, the spelling of this word and a few other being exceptions. Compare hin håle and utböling (from ON. *hinn harði and *útbyrðing respectively)

• IPA^(key): /steːl/

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stel (comparative stelare, superlative stelast)

1. stiff, rigid
2. (figuratively) very strict and formal (to a fault), stiff
3. (figuratively) awkward

   Det vart så stelt när han blev totaldissad på dansgolvet.

   It was so awkward when he got super dissed on the dance floor.

• stelna
• stelnad

• formell (“formal”)

• stel in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• stel in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• stel in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• slet

• IPA^(key): [stel]

stel (nominative plural stels)

1. star (astronomy)
   • 1952, Arie de Jong, Diatek nulik: Gospul ma ‚Matthaeus’. Kapit: II:

     Kiöpo reg änu pemotöl Yudanas binom-li? Elogobs in lofüd steli omik, ed ekömobs ad stimodön omi.

     Where is the infant king of the Jews? We saw his star as it rose and have come to do him homage.

• galaxid
• mun
• planet
• sol
• tal