sea stack

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈsiː ˌstæk/
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• General-American: /ˈsi ˌstæk/
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From sea + stack (“a heap, pile; large vertical column of rock in the sea”); stack is derived from Middle English stak (“a heap, pile, stack; large vertical column of rock in the sea”) [and other forms], from Old Norse stakkr (“a heap, pile; haystack; barn”) (compare Faroese stakkur (“sea stack”)), from Proto-Germanic *stakkaz (“pile of hay, haystack”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg- (“beam, pole, stick”).

38 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: кекур (kekur) — pillar of rock that rises from the ocean
• Catalan: faralló — pillar of rock that rises from the ocean
• Chinese Mandarin: 海蝕柱 /海蚀柱 (hǎishízhù) — pillar of rock that rises from the ocean
• Dutch: brandingspilaar — pillar of rock that rises from the ocean
• Esperanto: klifinsuleto — pillar of rock that rises from the ocean
• Faroese: stakkur — pillar of rock that rises from the ocean
• French: stack — pillar of rock that rises from the ocean
• Galician: farallón — pillar of rock that rises from the ocean
• German: Brandungspfeiler — pillar of rock that rises from the ocean
• German: Kliffpfeiler — pillar of rock that rises from the ocean
• German: Felsnadel — pillar of rock that rises from the ocean
• Hebrew: סטאק — pillar of rock that rises from the ocean
• Icelandic: drangur — pillar of rock that rises from the ocean
• Irish: staca — pillar of rock that rises from the ocean
• Italian: faraglione — pillar of rock that rises from the ocean
• Japanese: 海食柱 (kaishokuchū) — pillar of rock that rises from the ocean
• Kazakh: кекур (kekur) — pillar of rock that rises from the ocean
• Korean: 시스택 (siseutaek) — pillar of rock that rises from the ocean
• Latin: stakus — pillar of rock that rises from the ocean
• Lithuanian: kekuras — pillar of rock that rises from the ocean
• Middle English: stak — pillar of rock that rises from the ocean
• Norman: êta — pillar of rock that rises from the ocean
• Norwegian Bokmål: staur — pillar of rock that rises from the ocean
• Norwegian Nynorsk: staur i geologi — pillar of rock that rises from the ocean
• Occitan: farilhon — pillar of rock that rises from the ocean
• Occitan: faralhon — pillar of rock that rises from the ocean
• Polish: filar — pillar of rock that rises from the ocean
• Portuguese: leixão — pillar of rock that rises from the ocean
• Portuguese: roca — pillar of rock that rises from the ocean
• Russian: ке́кур (kékur) — pillar of rock that rises from the ocean
• Sicilian: faragghiuni — pillar of rock that rises from the ocean
• Spanish: farallón — pillar of rock that rises from the ocean
• Swedish: rauk — pillar of rock that rises from the ocean
• Thai: เกาะหินโด่ง (gɔ̀-hǐn-dòong) — pillar of rock that rises from the ocean
• Tolowa: k’wvt-saa~-ghvt-dalh — pillar of rock that rises from the ocean
• Turkish: kaya balyaları — pillar of rock that rises from the ocean
• Ukrainian: кекур (kekur) — pillar of rock that rises from the ocean
• Vietnamese: khối đá tàn dư — pillar of rock that rises from the ocean