stein

From a regional use[1] of German Stein (“stone”). Probably a clipping of Steingut (“stoneware”) or Steinkrug (“stone pitcher”). Compare Old English stǣna (“stone jug, a pot of stone or earth”). Doublet of stone. More at stean.

• IPA^(key): /staɪn/

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  Rhymes: -aɪn

stein (plural steins)

1. A beer mug, usually made of ceramic or glass.
   • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, “Zollenstein”, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 40:

     So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein—coloring and all. Backed by towering hills, […] a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

   • 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, 1st US edition, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, part 3: In the Zone, page 305:

     A gnome-size German civilian with a red von Hindenburg mustache is dispensing steins of what looks to be mostly head.

   • 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, pages 24–25:

     […] those 50 grams of resin-soaked dope, which had been so potent that on the second day it had given him an anxiety attack so paralyzing that he had gone to the bathroom in a Tufts University commemorative ceramic stein to avoid leaving his bedroom, […]

• Stein
• steinstrasse

• beer glass
• tankard

• Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1.

• Beer stein on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Tiens, inset, neist, nites, senti, set in, sient, snite, tines, tsine

• stern

Possibly a writing corruption of stern. At any rate from Proto-Germanic *sternǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr.

stein

1. star
   • 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:

     Stein. Stella.

• IPA^(key): /steiːn/

stein

1. indefinite accusative singular of steinn

From Old High German stein, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz.

• IPA^(key): /s̠tɛi̯n/

stein m (plural steine)

1. stone
   • c. 1200, Walther von der Vogelweide, Ich saz ūf eime steine:

     Ich saz ūf eime steine
     Und dahte bein mit beine.

     I was sitting on a stone
     Putting one leg over the other.

From Old Norse steinn, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz.

• IPA^(key): /stæɪn/

  Rhymes: -æɪn

stein (neuter singular stein, definite singular and plural steine)

1. (slang) stoned, under the influence of cannabis

stein m (definite singular steinen, indefinite plural steiner, definite plural steinene)

1. stone
2. pip (in citrus fruit, grapes)

• sten (all senses, also Riksmål)

stein

1. imperative of steine

• “stein” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• steidn (noun)
• steinsens (adverb)

From Old Norse steinn, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz. Akin to English stone.

(smoking): The adjective is a Calque of English stoned.

• IPA^(key): /stɛɪːn/

stein m (definite singular steinen, indefinite plural steinar, definite plural steinane)

1. stone
2. pip (e.g. in citrus fruit, grapes, cherries)

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stein (definite singular and plural steine)

1. (slang) stoned, under the influence of cannabis

stein

1. (colloquial) Used as an intensifier; completely

   Dei er stein hakkande gale folk ass!

   This people are completely crazy as hell!

• “stein” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-West Germanic *stain, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz.

stein m

1. stone

• agatstein
• fiurstein
• flinsstein
• griozstein
• salzstein
• santstein
• senkilstein
• steinofan

• Middle High German: stein
  • Alemannic German: Steei

    Swabian: Schdoi, Schdoa

  • Bavarian: Staa, Stan, Stoa, Stoan, Stuan
  • Central Franconian: Stään, Steen, Stein

    Hunsrik: Steen, xtayn

    Transylvanian Saxon: Stien

  • German: Stein
  • Luxembourgish: Steen
  • Vilamovian: śtan
  • Yiddish: שטיין (shteyn)

stein

1. indefinite accusative singular of steinn