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stonen

stonen

English

Adjective

stonen ‎(comparative more stonen, superlative most stonen)

  1. Consisting or made of stone.
    • 1869, William Barnes, Poems of rural life in common English:
      [...] And up these well-worn blocks of stone I came when I first ran alone, The stonen stairs beclimb'd the mound, Ere father put a foot to ground, [...]

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Etymology

From Middle English stonen, alteration (due to stone) of earlier stenen, from Old English stǣnen ‎(“stony; of stone, hard as stone; stone, made of stone, built of stone”), from Proto-Germanic *stainīnaz ‎(“made of stone”), equivalent to stone +‎ -en.

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