storey

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• UK: /ˈstɔː.ɹɪ/
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• UK: /ˈstɔː.ɹi/
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• US: /ˈstɔɹ.i/
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• homophone: story
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• rhymes with -ɔːɹi
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• CMU ARPABET: S T AO1 R IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Originates from the Old Norse personal epithet “Stóri”, a derivative of “Storr” which means “large” or “big”. Even though it has been established that the root of the name is “Storr”, R.E.K. Rigbeye, in his book The Storey’s of Old claims that the suffix “ey[e]”, in the variant of Storey, is equivalent to the Icelandic “ig” and signifies “water”. According to him, “Storr” also denotes large in the sense of vast and rough.

From Middle English story, via Medieval Latin historia (“narrative, illustraton, frieze”) from Ancient Greek ἱστορίᾱ (historíā, “learning through research”). The current sense arose from narrative friezes on upper levels of medieval buildings, esp. churches. Doublet of story and history. An alternative etymology derives Middle English story from Old French *estoree (“a thing built, building”), from estoree (“built”), feminine past participle of estorer (“to build”), from Latin instaurare (“to construct, build, erect”), but this seems unlikely since historia already had the meaning "storey of a building" in Anglo-Latin.

183 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: verdieping — floor, level
• Albanian: kat — floor, level
• Albanian: patomë — floor, level
• Amharic: ፎቅ (foḳ) — floor, level
• Arabic: طَابَق (ṭābaq) — floor, level
• Arabic: دَوْر (dawr) — floor, level
• Arabic: طَبَقَة (ṭabaqa) — floor, level
• Arabic: دور (dōr) — floor, level
• Arabic: طبقة (ṭabqa) — floor, level
• Arabic: طَابق (ṭābeq) — floor, level
• Armenian: հարկ (hark) — floor, level
• Asturian: nivel — floor, level
• Azerbaijani: mərtəbə — floor, level
• Azerbaijani: qat — floor, level
• Bashkir: ҡат (qat) — floor, level
• Bashkir: этаж (etaj) — floor, level
• Belarusian: паве́рх (pavjérx) — floor, level
• Bengali: তলা (tola) — floor, level
• Bengali: তল (tol) — floor, level
• Bengali: তালা (tala) — floor, level
• Bulgarian: ета́ж (etáž) — floor, level
• Bulgarian: кат (kat) — floor, level
• Burmese: အထပ် (a.htap) — floor, level
• Catalan: pis — floor, level
• Chechen: этаж (etaž) — floor, level
• Chinese Cantonese: 層 /层 (cang4) — floor, level
• Chinese Cantonese: 樓 /楼 — floor, level
• Chinese: цынзы (cɨnzɨ) — floor, level
• Chinese: цын (cɨn) — floor, level
• Eastern Min Chinese: 層 /层 (cèng) — floor, level
• Hakka Chinese: 層 /层 (chhèn) — floor, level
• Chinese Mandarin: 層 /层 (céng) — floor, level
• Chinese Mandarin: 樓 /楼 (lóu) — floor, level
• Chinese Mandarin: 樓層 /楼层 (lóucéng) — floor, level
• Northern Min Chinese: 層 /层 (cǎing) — floor, level
• Wu Chinese: 層 /层 — floor, level
• Chukchi: ярапытвын (jarapytvyn) — floor, level
• Chuvash: хут (hut) — floor, level
• Crimean Tatar: qat — floor, level
• Czech: podlaží — floor, level
• Czech: patro — floor, level
• Czech: etáž — floor, level
• Danish: etage — floor, level
• Danish: sal — floor, level
• Dutch: verdieping — floor, level
• Dutch: etage — floor, level
• Dutch: verdiep — floor, level
• Elfdalian: wåningg — floor, level
• Esperanto: etaĝo — floor, level
• Estonian: korrus — floor, level
• Faroese: hædd — floor, level
• Finnish: kerros — floor, level
• French: étage — floor, level
• French: niveau — floor, level
• Galician: andar — floor, level
• Galician: piso — floor, level
• Galician: planta — floor, level
• Georgian: სართული (sartuli) — floor, level
• Georgian: იარუსი (iarusi) — floor, level
• German: Stock — floor, level
• German: Stockwerk — floor, level
• German: Geschoss — floor, level
• German: Etage — floor, level
• Greek: όροφος (órofos) — floor, level
• Greek: πάτωμα (pátoma) — floor, level
• Gujarati: માળ (māḷ) — floor, level
• Hawaiian: papa — floor, level
• Hebrew: קוֹמָה (komá) — floor, level
• Hebrew: דְּיוֹטָה (dyotá) — floor, level
• Hindi: तल (tal) — floor, level
• Hungarian: szint — floor, level
• Hungarian: emelet — floor, level
• Icelandic: hæð — floor, level
• Indonesian: tingkat — floor, level
• Indonesian: lantai — floor, level
• Ingrian: kerta — floor, level
• Irish: urlár — floor, level
• Irish: stór — floor, level
• Italian: piano — floor, level
• Italian: livello — floor, level
• Japanese: 階 (kai) — floor, level
• Karachay-Balkar: къат (qat) — floor, level
• Karakalpak: qabat — floor, level
• Kazakh: қабат (qabat) — floor, level
• Kazakh: қатар (qatar) — floor, level
• Khmer: ជាន់ (cŏən) — floor, level
• Komi-Permyak: сувда (suvda) — floor, level
• Korean: 층 (cheung) — floor, level
• Northern Kurdish: qat — floor, level
• Northern Kurdish: tebeq — floor, level
• Kyrgyz: этаж (etaj) — floor, level
• Kyrgyz: кабат (kabat) — floor, level
• Kyrgyz: катар (katar) — floor, level
• Lao: ຊັ້ນ (san) — floor, level
• Lao: ຖ້ານ (thān) — floor, level
• Lao: ພູມ (phūm) — floor, level
• Lao: ປະຕຸລາ (pa tu lā) — floor, level
• Latin: tabulātum — floor, level
• Latvian: stāvs — floor, level
• Lithuanian: aukštas — floor, level
• Luxembourgish: Stack — floor, level
• Macedonian: спрат (sprat) — floor, level
• Macedonian: кат (kat) — floor, level
• Malay: tingkat — floor, level
• Malay: aras — floor, level
• Malayalam: നില (nila) — floor, level
• Maltese: sular — floor, level
• Marathi: मजला (majlā) — floor, level
• Eastern Mari: пачаш (pačaš) — floor, level
• Eastern Mari: этаж (etaž) — floor, level
• Middle English: flor — floor, level
• Middle English: stage — floor, level
• Mongolian: давхар (davxar) — floor, level
• Mongolian: ᠳᠠᠪᠬᠤᠷ (dabqur) — floor, level
• Nogai: шарлак (şarlak) — floor, level
• Norwegian Bokmål: etasje — floor, level
• Norwegian Nynorsk: etasje — floor, level
• Ossetian: уӕладзыг (wælaʒyg) — floor, level
• Pashto: طبقه (tabaqa) — floor, level
• Pashto: پوړ (pūṛ) — floor, level
• Dari: طَبَقَه (tabaqa) — floor, level
• Iranian Persian: طَبَقِه (tabaġe) — floor, level
• Iranian Persian: اُشْکوبِه (oškube) — floor, level
• Iranian Persian: اُشْکوب (oškub) — floor, level
• Polish: piętro — floor, level
• Polish: kondygnacja — floor, level
• Polish: poziom — floor, level
• Portuguese: andar — floor, level
• Portuguese: piso — floor, level
• Romanian: etaj — floor, level
• Romanian: nivel — floor, level
• Romansh: plaun — floor, level
• Romansh: auzada — floor, level
• Russian: эта́ж (etáž) — floor, level
• Russian: у́ровень (úrovenʹ) — floor, level
• Russian: я́рус (járus) — floor, level
• Salar: xat — floor, level
• Salar: qat — floor, level
• Salar: sıŋ — floor, level
• Northern Sami: geardi — floor, level
• Serbo-Croatian: ка̏т — floor, level
• Serbo-Croatian: спра̏т — floor, level
• Serbo-Croatian: kȁt — floor, level
• Serbo-Croatian: sprȁt — floor, level
• Sinhalese: මහල් (mahal) — floor, level
• Slovak: podlažie — floor, level
• Slovak: poschodie — floor, level
• Slovene: nadstropje — floor, level
• Slovene: etaža — floor, level
• Lower Sorbian: nastwark — floor, level
• Upper Sorbian: poschod — floor, level
• Upper Sorbian: etaža — floor, level
• Spanish: piso — floor, level
• Spanish: planta — floor, level
• Spanish: nivel — floor, level
• Swahili: sakafu — floor, level
• Swedish: våning — floor, level
• Tagalog: patong — floor, level
• Tajik: қабат (qabat) — floor, level
• Tajik: ошёна (ošyona) — floor, level
• Tatar: кат (qat) — floor, level
• Telugu: అంతస్తు (antastu) — floor, level
• Thai: ชั้น (chán) — floor, level
• Tigrinya: ደርቢ (därbi) — floor, level
• Turkish: kat — floor, level
• Ottoman Turkish: قات (kat) — floor, level
• Turkmen: etaž — floor, level
• Turkmen: mertebe — floor, level
• Turkmen: gat — floor, level
• Ukrainian: по́верх (póverx) — floor, level
• Urdu: مَنْزِل (manzil) — floor, level
• Urdu: طَبَقَہ (tabaqa) — floor, level
• Uyghur: قەۋەت (qewet) — floor, level
• Uyghur: ئېتاژ (ëtazh) — floor, level
• Uzbek: qavat — floor, level
• Uzbek: etaj — floor, level
• Vietnamese: tầng — floor, level
• Votic: jätaži — floor, level
• Welsh: llawr — floor, level
• Yiddish: שטאָק (shtok) — floor, level
• Yiddish: עטאַזש (etazh) — floor, level
• Yiddish: גאָרן (gorn) — floor, level
• Zhuang: caengz — floor, level