stelen

• IPA^(key): /ˈsteːlə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: ste‧len
• Rhymes: -eːlən

From Middle Dutch stelen, from Old Dutch *stelan, from Proto-West Germanic *stelan, from Proto-Germanic *stelaną.

stelen

1. (transitive) to steal

• jatten
• ontvreemden

• bestelen
• steler

• Afrikaans: steel
• Negerhollands: steel

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

stelen

1. plural of steel

• lentes, nestel, sleten

From Old Dutch *stelan.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɛːlən/

stēlen

1. to steal

• Dutch: stelen
  • Afrikaans: steel
• Limburgish: staele

• “stelen (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “stelen (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

From Old English stelan.

stelen (third-person singular simple present steleth, present participle stelende, stelynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative stal, past participle stolen)

1. to steal
   • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎^[1], published c. 1410, Epheſianes 4:28, page 75v, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

     he þat ſtal .· now ſtele he not / but moꝛe trauele he in woꝛchyng wiþ his hondis þat þat is good .· þat he haue wher of he ſchal ȝyue to nedi

     Anyone who steals shouldn't steal again, but should instead do useful work with their own hands so they have [something] to give to the needy.

• English: steal
• Scots: stele, steil