стеж

Uncertain. Possibly related to Bulgarian стежер (stežer, “pole”), which also means oak in some dialects. Cf. also Romanian stejar (“oak”).

On a surface level, resembles Old Church Slavonic остегъ (ostegŭ), остежь (ostežĭ, “zip, fastener (of cloths)”) and Polish ścieg (“stitch”), Czech steh (“stitch”) from Proto-Slavic *stegъ.

стеж • (stež) m

1. (dialectal) white oak (Quercus pubescens)

   Synonyms: бял дъб (bjal dǎb), благун (blagun)

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• стежяк (stežjak)

• стог (stog, “stack”)
• стожер (stožer, “pivot, pole”)

• Todorov, T. A., Racheva, M., editors (2010), “стеж, стежяк”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 7 (слòво – теря̀свам), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 441

• IPA^(key): [stɛʒ]

стеж • (stež)

1. second-person singular imperative of сте́жити impf (stéžyty)