stile

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /staɪl/
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• rhymes with -aɪl
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• homophone: style
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• homophone: Styal
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• CMU ARPABET: S T AY1 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *steygh- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *stéygheti Proto-Germanic *stīganą Proto-West Germanic *stīgan Proto-West Germanic *-i Proto-West Germanic *stigi Proto-Indo-European *-lósder.? Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-tromder.? Proto-Germanic *-ilaz Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Germanic *-ō Proto-Germanic *ilō Proto-West Germanic *-ilu Proto-West Germanic *stigilu Old English stiġel Middle English stile English stile From Middle English stile, style, stiȝele, from Old English stiġel (“stile, set of steps for getting over a fence”), from Proto-West Germanic *stigilu, from Proto-Germanic *stigilō (“entry, entrance, overpass, device for climbing, stile”), equivalent to sty (“to ascend, climb”) + -le. Cognate with Dutch stegel (“stirrup”), Low German Stegel (“stile”), German Stiegel (“stile”).

See the etymology at style.

28 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Czech: schůdky — steps or short ladder over a fence, wall, or hedge
• Czech: žebříček — steps or short ladder over a fence, wall, or hedge
• Danish: stente — steps or short ladder over a fence, wall, or hedge
• Dutch: overstap — steps or short ladder over a fence, wall, or hedge
• Esperanto: murŝtuparo — steps or short ladder over a fence, wall, or hedge
• Finnish: jalkaporras — steps or short ladder over a fence, wall, or hedge
• Finnish: aitaporras — steps or short ladder over a fence, wall, or hedge
• French: échalier — steps or short ladder over a fence, wall, or hedge
• German: Zauntritt — steps or short ladder over a fence, wall, or hedge
• German: Zaunübertritt — steps or short ladder over a fence, wall, or hedge
• German: Mauertritt — steps or short ladder over a fence, wall, or hedge
• German: Heckensteigleiter — steps or short ladder over a fence, wall, or hedge
• Igbo: ọgbà — steps or short ladder over a fence, wall, or hedge
• Māori: koronae — steps or short ladder over a fence, wall, or hedge
• Māori: ara whakatungangi — steps or short ladder over a fence, wall, or hedge
• Norwegian: stente — steps or short ladder over a fence, wall, or hedge
• Plautdietsch: Stajch — steps or short ladder over a fence, wall, or hedge
• Plautdietsch: Tuntrap — steps or short ladder over a fence, wall, or hedge
• Russian: перела́з (pereláz) — steps or short ladder over a fence, wall, or hedge
• Spanish: montante — steps or short ladder over a fence, wall, or hedge
• Swedish: stätta — steps or short ladder over a fence, wall, or hedge
• Ukrainian: перела́з (pereláz) — steps or short ladder over a fence, wall, or hedge
• Welsh: camfa — steps or short ladder over a fence, wall, or hedge
• Finnish: pieli — vertical component of a panel or frame
• French: montant — vertical component of a panel or frame
• Portuguese: umbral — vertical component of a panel or frame
• Portuguese: ombreira — vertical component of a panel or frame
• Welsh: llorp — vertical component of a panel or frame