stiche

• stecche, steche, sticche, sticke, stych, styche, styk

Inherited from Old English stiċe, from Proto-West Germanic *stiki, from Proto-Germanic *stikiz; compare stikke.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstit͡ʃ(ə)/
• (Northern) IPA^(key): /stik/, /steːk/

stiche (plural stiches)

1. An acute stabbing sensation.
2. A stitch (pass of a needle or loop made by one).
3. (surgery) Surgical stitching.

• stichen

• English: stitch
• Scots: steek, stick

• “stich(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈs̠tɪxə/

stiche

1. first-person singular present indicative of stëchen