stapel

• IPA^(key): /ˈstaː.pəl/

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• Hyphenation: sta‧pel

From Middle Dutch stapel, from Old Dutch stapal, from Proto-West Germanic *stapul, from Proto-Germanic *stapulaz. Doublet of etappe.

stapel m (plural stapels, diminutive stapeltje n)

1. pile
2. (archaic) basis, foundation, pedestal
3. (historical, trade) stockpile, stock
4. (lutherie) sound post

   Synonym: ziel

• → Caribbean Javanese: setabel
• → Papiamentu: stapel

From Middle Dutch stapel, perhaps ultimately from a lost derivative of Proto-Germanic *stapiz (“step, stride”), referring to an insect that moves by jumps and strides.[1]

stapel m (plural stapels)

1. (obsolete, dialectal) cricket (or alternatively, grasshopper)
   • 1597, Karel van Mander, “Vijfd' Ecloga, oft Boer-liedt”, in Bucolica en Georgica, dat is, Ossen-stal en Landt-werck, page 30:

     Soo lang Wildt swijn berg-top, en visch de vliet / Bemint: oock Bye van Thijm haer aes geniet / En Stapel oock van douw', soo langh sal blijven: / V eer en naem, en loflijck groot beclijven.

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   • 1636, Johan de Brune (de Oude), "Emblemata X", Emblemata of Zinne-werck, page 80.

     De godvruchtighe, zeght erghens een, zijn ghelijck de mieren, die eerst moede, dan blijde zijn: maer de godlooze, gelijck de stapels, of sprinck-hanen, die eerst zinghen, en dan droeve en bekommert zijn.

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• stapeldol
• stapelgek
• stapelverliefd

• stap
• stappen

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

stapel

1. inflection of stapelen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

• plaste

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stapel

1. inflection of stapeln:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative

From Old English stapol (“basis, pillar”).

stapel (plural stapels)

1. post, staff, stake
2. staple (U-shaped metal fastener)

• stapil, stapile, staple, stapul, stable

• English: staple
• Scots: steeple

• “stāpel, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

stapel (plural stapels)

1. Alternative form of staple

From Old Norse stǫpull (“column, pillar”).

stapel c

1. a tall stack

   en stapel av lådor

   a tall stack of boxes

2. a bar (in a bar graph)
3. a dock and slipway (in a shipyard)

   det nya skeppet ska gå av stapeln på tisdag

   the new ship will leave the dock (and enter the water for its maiden tour) on Tuesday

   tävlingen går av stapeln på tisdag

   the competition is held on Tuesday (figurative)

• klockstapel
• stapelavlöpning
• stapeldiagram
• stapelvara

• stapla

• → Finnish: taapeli

• trave (“neat stack”)

• stapel in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

• spelat