stengel

Borrowed from Middle High German stengel, from Old High German stengil, from Proto-West Germanic *stangil, from Proto-Germanic *stangilaz. By surface analysis, stang +‎ -el, with umlaut.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɛ.ŋəl/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: sten‧gel
• Rhymes: -ɛŋəl

stengel m (plural stengels, diminutive stengeltje n)

1. stalk

• → Papiamentu: stèngel

• lengtes, tengels

From German Low German [Term?] and German Stengel (old spelling), compare with current German Stängel, Danish stængel and Swedish stängel.

stengel m (definite singular stengelen, indefinite plural stengler, definite plural stenglene)

1. a stalk or stem (of a plant)

• “stengel” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From German Low German [Term?] and German Stengel (old spelling), compare with current German Stängel, Danish stængel and Swedish stängel.

stengel m (definite singular stengelen, indefinite plural stenglar, definite plural stenglane)

1. a stalk or stem (of a plant)

• “stengel” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.