stair

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• General-American: /stɛɚ/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /stɛə/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /stɛː/
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• Australian: /steː/
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• /stiə/ New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
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• New-Zealand: /steə/ without the cheer–chair merger
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• Scotland: /steɾ/
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• /stɜː(ɹ)/ Lancashire, fair–fur merger
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• rhymes with -ɛə(ɹ)
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• homophone: stare
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• homophone: steer (cheer–chair merger)
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• homophone: stir (fair–fur merger)
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• CMU ARPABET: S T EH1 R Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From stair, a topographic surname for someone who lived by a ladder or steps.

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *steygh- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *stéygheti Proto-Germanic *stīganą Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Germanic *-janą Proto-Germanic *staigijaną Proto-Indo-European *-rós Proto-Germanic *-raz Proto-Germanic *staigraz Proto-Germanic *staigriz Proto-West Germanic *staigri Old English stǣġer Middle English steire English stair From Middle English steire, staire, stayre, stayer, steir, steyre, steyer, from Old English stǣġer (“stair, staircase”), from Proto-West Germanic *staigri, from Proto-Germanic *staigriz (“stairs, scaffolding”), from Proto-Indo-European *steygh- (“to walk, proceed, march, climb”). Cognate with Dutch steiger (“a stair, step, wharf, pier, scaffolding”), Middle Low German steiger, steir (“scaffolding”), German Low German Steiger (“a scaffold; trestle”). Related to Old English āstǣġan (“to ascend, go up, embark”), Old English stīġan (“to go, move, reach; ascend, mount, go up, spring up, rise; scale”), German Stiege (“a flight of stairs”). More at sty.

133 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Southern Altai: баскыш (baskïš) — single step
• Arabic: سلمة (sillima) — single step
• Bashkir: баҫҡыс (baśqıs) — single step
• Bashkir: баҫма (baśma) — single step
• Belarusian: прысту́пка (prystúpka) — single step
• Bulgarian: стъпало (stǎpalo) — single step
• Catalan: esglaó — single step
• Catalan: graó — single step
• Chinese Mandarin: 臺階 /台阶 (táijiē) — single step
• Dutch: tree — single step
• Esperanto: ŝtupo — single step
• Finnish: porras — single step
• French: marche — single step
• Georgian: საფეხური (sapexuri) — single step
• German: Stufe — single step
• German: Treppenstufe — single step
• Greek: σκαλί (skalí) — single step
• Greek: σκαλοπάτι (skalopáti) — single step
• Hungarian: lépcsőfok — single step
• Icelandic: trappa — single step
• Icelandic: þrep — single step
• Ido: grado — single step
• Ingrian: trappu — single step
• Italian: scalino — single step
• Japanese: 石段 (ishidan) — single step
• Japanese: 段 (dan) — single step
• Latin: gradus — single step
• Lithuanian: laiptas — single step
• Norwegian: trinn — single step
• Pannonian Rusyn: ґарадича (garadiča) — single step
• Persian: پله (pelle) — single step
• Polish: stopień — single step
• Portuguese: degrau — single step
• Punjabi: پَوڑی (pauṛī) — single step
• Romanian: treaptă — single step
• Russian: ступе́нька (stupénʹka) — single step
• Russian: ступе́нь (stupénʹ) — single step
• Scottish Gaelic: staidhre — single step
• Spanish: peldaño — single step
• Swedish: trappsteg — single step
• Turkish: merdiven — single step
• Ukrainian: схі́дець (sxídecʹ) — single step
• Ukrainian: схо́динка (sxódynka) — single step
• Zazaki: gam (diq) — single step
• Southern Altai: тепкиш (tepkiš) — series of steps
• Southern Altai: баскыш (baskïš) — series of steps
• Arabic: سَلَالِم (salālim) — series of steps
• Armenian: աստիճաններ (astičanner) — series of steps
• Armenian: սանդուղք (sanduġkʻ) — series of steps
• Armenian: փիլաքյան (pʻilakʻyan) — series of steps
• Aromanian: scarã — series of steps
• Bashkir: баҫҡыс (baśqıs) — series of steps
• Basque: eskailera — series of steps
• Belarusian: ле́свіца (ljésvica) — series of steps
• Belarusian: усхо́ды (usxódy) — series of steps
• Bulgarian: стълбище (stǎlbište) — series of steps
• Burmese: လှေကား (hleka:) — series of steps
• Cebuano: hagdanan — series of steps
• Chinese Mandarin: 樓梯 /楼梯 (lóutī) — series of steps
• Czech: schody — series of steps
• Czech: schodiště — series of steps
• Danish: trappe — series of steps
• Dutch: trap — series of steps
• Esperanto: ŝtuparo — series of steps
• Estonian: trepp — series of steps
• Faroese: trappa — series of steps
• Finnish: portaat — series of steps
• Finnish: portaikko — series of steps
• French: escalier — series of steps
• French: volée — series of steps
• Georgian: კიბე (ḳibe) — series of steps
• German: Treppe — series of steps
• German: Stiege — series of steps
• Greek: σκάλα (skála) — series of steps
• Greek: κλίμακα (klímaka) — series of steps
• Greenlandic: majuartarfiit — series of steps
• Hebrew: מדרגות — series of steps
• Hebrew: מדרגה (madregá) — series of steps
• Higaonon: hagadan — series of steps
• Hungarian: lépcső — series of steps
• Hungarian: lépcsősor — series of steps
• Icelandic: stigi — series of steps
• Icelandic: tröppur — series of steps
• Icelandic: þrep — series of steps
• Ido: eskalero — series of steps
• Igbo: ǹkwà — series of steps
• Indonesian: tangga — series of steps
• Ingrian: traput — series of steps
• Iranun: tuak — series of steps
• Italian: scala — series of steps
• Japanese: 階段 (kaidan) — series of steps
• Javanese: undhak-undhakan — series of steps
• Kazakh: баспалдақ (baspaldaq) — series of steps
• Khmer: កាំជណ្ដើរ (kam cɔɔcŭəndaə) — series of steps
• Korean: 계단 (gyedan) — series of steps
• Kyrgyz: тепкич (tepkic) — series of steps
• Lao: ບັນໄດ (ban dai) — series of steps
• Latvian: kāpnes — series of steps
• Lithuanian: laiptinė — series of steps
• Lithuanian: laiptai — series of steps
• Livonian: strepīd — series of steps
• Macedonian: ска́ла (skála) — series of steps
• Malay: تڠݢ — series of steps
• Malay: tangga — series of steps
• Māori: arawhata — series of steps
• Māori: arapiki — series of steps
• Mongolian: шат (šat) — series of steps
• Norwegian: trapp — series of steps
• Occitan: escalièr — series of steps
• Persian: پلکان (pellekân) — series of steps
• Portuguese: escada — series of steps
• Punjabi: پَوڑیاں (pauṛeyāṉ) — series of steps
• Romanian: scară — series of steps
• Romansh: stgala — series of steps
• Russian: ле́стница (léstnica) — series of steps
• Russian: ступе́ньки (stupénʹki) — series of steps
• Sardinian: iscala — series of steps
• Sardinian: issaba — series of steps
• Sardinian: scaba — series of steps
• Sardinian: iscalera — series of steps
• Scottish Gaelic: staidhre — series of steps
• Serbo-Croatian: stubište — series of steps
• Slovak: schodisko — series of steps
• Slovak: schody — series of steps
• Spanish: escalera — series of steps
• Swedish: trappa — series of steps
• Thai: บันได (ban-dai) — series of steps
• Thai: กระได (grà-dai) — series of steps
• Turkish: merdiven — series of steps
• Ottoman Turkish: نردبان (nerdiban) — series of steps
• Ukrainian: схо́ди (sxódy) — series of steps
• Venetan: scała — series of steps
• Vietnamese: cầu thang — series of steps