"ston" meaning in Middle English

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Noun

IPA: /stɑːn/ [Early-Middle-English, Northern], /stɔːn/ Forms: stones [plural], ston [plural], stonen [error-unknown-tag, plural, rare]
Rhymes: -ɔːn Etymology: Inherited from Old English stān, from Proto-West Germanic *stain, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz. Etymology templates: {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|enm|ang|stān|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Old English stān, {{inh+|enm|ang|stān}} Inherited from Old English stān, {{inh|enm|gmw-pro|*stain}} Proto-West Germanic *stain, {{inh|enm|gem-pro|*stainaz}} Proto-Germanic *stainaz Head templates: {{head|enm|nouns|g=|g2=|g3=|head=|sort=}} ston, {{enm-noun|stones|pl2=ston|pl3=stonen|pl3_qual=early, rare}} ston (plural stones or ston or (early, rare) stonen)
  1. A stone, boulder, or pebble:
    A millstone or whetstone.
    Categories (topical): Rocks
    Sense id: en-ston-enm-noun-la6p729x Disambiguation of Rocks: 22 17 10 5 7 3 3 21 4 8 1
  2. A stone, boulder, or pebble:
    A pebble used in a slingshot.
    Categories (topical): Architecture, Buildings and structures, Geology, Rocks, Units of measure
    Sense id: en-ston-enm-noun-VHx9u~Ui Disambiguation of Architecture: 8 29 7 8 5 5 5 6 15 7 3 Disambiguation of Buildings and structures: 8 26 7 8 5 5 5 6 17 11 3 Disambiguation of Geology: 20 29 12 7 5 4 4 6 4 6 2 Disambiguation of Rocks: 22 17 10 5 7 3 3 21 4 8 1 Disambiguation of Units of measure: 7 23 6 7 7 7 7 7 9 6 11 Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 5 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 13 20 11 12 5 5 6 5 6 14 2 Disambiguation of Pages with 5 entries: 12 21 10 11 4 4 9 4 12 10 4 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 12 21 10 10 4 4 9 4 12 10 4
  3. A stone, boulder, or pebble:
    Sense id: en-ston-enm-noun-7NSte418
  4. A solid mass resembling stone, especially:
    A piece of hail, a hailstone.
    Sense id: en-ston-enm-noun-5Bm2COCH
  5. A solid mass resembling stone, especially:
    A kidney stone or gallstone.
    Sense id: en-ston-enm-noun-Xf~tQrHO
  6. A solid mass resembling stone, especially:
    A pit; the hard seed of a fruit.
    Sense id: en-ston-enm-noun-06NOOqOL
  7. A solid mass resembling stone, especially:
    A jewel or precious crystal
    Sense id: en-ston-enm-noun-QxEMwQrH
  8. A solid mass resembling stone, especially:
    (colloquial) A testicle.
    Tags: colloquial Categories (topical): Genitalia, Rocks
    Sense id: en-ston-enm-noun-Q77ZLiHI Disambiguation of Genitalia: 5 9 3 4 14 3 3 46 2 11 1 Disambiguation of Rocks: 22 17 10 5 7 3 3 21 4 8 1
  9. Stone as a material (especially in construction)
    Sense id: en-ston-enm-noun-wqVvggrv
  10. A stone structure or monument, especially a tomb or tombstone.
    Sense id: en-ston-enm-noun-IjN5MMzT
  11. A stone (unit of mass)
    Sense id: en-ston-enm-noun-HvAqP8h6
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: stan, stane, stoan, stone, stoon, stoone

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "english": "\"Judas, get up on the rock, high on the stone, / rest your head on my lap and fall asleep right away!\"",
          "ref": "c. 1275, Judas (Roud 2964, Child Ballad 23, Trinity College MS. B.14.39), folio 34, recto, lines 15-16; republished at Cambridge: Wren Digital Library (Trinity College), 2019 May 29:",
          "text": "Iudaſ go þou on þe roc heie upon the ſton / lei þin heued i my barm, ſlep þou þe anon",
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          "english": "And they said to hills and rocks: \"Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one that sits on the throne and from the wrath of the lamb […] \"",
          "ref": "c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Apocalips 6:16, page 119v, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:",
          "text": ".· ⁊ þei ſeien to hillis and to ſtoonys falle ȝe on us ⁊ hide ȝe vs fro þe face of hi[m] þat ſittiþ on the troone.· ⁊ fro þe wraþþe of þe lomb ·",
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      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *stain",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*stainaz"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *stainaz",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Inherited from Old English stān, from Proto-West Germanic *stain, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "stones",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ston",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stonen",
      "tags": [
        "error-unknown-tag",
        "plural",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "nouns",
        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "ston",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "stones",
        "pl2": "ston",
        "pl3": "stonen",
        "pl3_qual": "early, rare"
      },
      "expansion": "ston (plural stones or ston or (early, rare) stonen)",
      "name": "enm-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "brymston"
    },
    {
      "word": "capston"
    },
    {
      "word": "corner ston"
    },
    {
      "word": "flynt ston"
    },
    {
      "word": "graveston"
    },
    {
      "word": "gunneston"
    },
    {
      "word": "mylneston"
    },
    {
      "word": "pibleston"
    },
    {
      "word": "slykeston"
    },
    {
      "word": "stenen"
    },
    {
      "word": "stonen"
    },
    {
      "word": "Stonhenge"
    },
    {
      "word": "stony"
    },
    {
      "word": "wheston"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A stone, boulder, or pebble:",
        "A millstone or whetstone."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "stone",
          "#English"
        ],
        [
          "boulder",
          "boulder"
        ],
        [
          "pebble",
          "pebble"
        ],
        [
          "millstone",
          "millstone"
        ],
        [
          "whetstone",
          "whetstone"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A stone, boulder, or pebble:",
        "A pebble used in a slingshot."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "stone",
          "#English"
        ],
        [
          "boulder",
          "boulder"
        ],
        [
          "pebble",
          "pebble"
        ],
        [
          "slingshot",
          "slingshot"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "\"Judas, get up on the rock, high on the stone, / rest your head on my lap and fall asleep right away!\"",
          "ref": "c. 1275, Judas (Roud 2964, Child Ballad 23, Trinity College MS. B.14.39), folio 34, recto, lines 15-16; republished at Cambridge: Wren Digital Library (Trinity College), 2019 May 29:",
          "text": "Iudaſ go þou on þe roc heie upon the ſton / lei þin heued i my barm, ſlep þou þe anon",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "And they said to hills and rocks: \"Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one that sits on the throne and from the wrath of the lamb […] \"",
          "ref": "c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Apocalips 6:16, page 119v, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:",
          "text": ".· ⁊ þei ſeien to hillis and to ſtoonys falle ȝe on us ⁊ hide ȝe vs fro þe face of hi[m] þat ſittiþ on the troone.· ⁊ fro þe wraþþe of þe lomb ·",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A stone, boulder, or pebble"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "stone",
          "#English"
        ],
        [
          "boulder",
          "boulder"
        ],
        [
          "pebble",
          "pebble"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "A stone, boulder, or pebble:"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A solid mass resembling stone, especially:",
        "A piece of hail, a hailstone."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hail",
          "hail"
        ],
        [
          "hailstone",
          "hailstone"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A solid mass resembling stone, especially:",
        "A kidney stone or gallstone."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "kidney",
          "kidney"
        ],
        [
          "gallstone",
          "gallstone"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A solid mass resembling stone, especially:",
        "A pit; the hard seed of a fruit."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pit",
          "pit"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A solid mass resembling stone, especially:",
        "A jewel or precious crystal"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "jewel",
          "jewel"
        ],
        [
          "crystal",
          "crystal"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English colloquialisms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A solid mass resembling stone, especially:",
        "A testicle."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "testicle",
          "testicle"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "A solid mass resembling stone, especially:",
        "(colloquial) A testicle."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Stone as a material (especially in construction)"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A stone structure or monument, especially a tomb or tombstone."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "structure",
          "structure"
        ],
        [
          "monument",
          "monument"
        ],
        [
          "tomb",
          "tomb"
        ],
        [
          "tombstone",
          "tombstone"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A stone (unit of mass)"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/stɑːn/",
      "tags": [
        "Early-Middle-English",
        "Northern"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/stɔːn/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɔːn"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "stan"
    },
    {
      "word": "stane"
    },
    {
      "word": "stoan"
    },
    {
      "word": "stone"
    },
    {
      "word": "stoon"
    },
    {
      "word": "stoone"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ston"
}

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