stow

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• Received-Pronunciation: /stəʊ/
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• General-American: /stoʊ/
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• Australian: /stəʉ/
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• New-Zealand: /stɐʉ/
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• Scotland: /sto/
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• Wales: /stou/ without the toe–tow merger
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• rhymes with -əʊ
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• homophone: store (Dough-door merger)
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• Scotland: /ˈstaʊ/
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• CMU ARPABET: S T OW1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English stowen, stawen, stewen, from Old English stōwian (“to hold back, restrain”), from Proto-Germanic *stōōną, *stōjaną (“to stow, dam up”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh2- (“to stand, place”). Cognate with Dutch stuwen, stouwen (“to stow”), Low German stauen (“to blin, halt, hinder”), German stauen (“to halt, hem in, stow, pack”).

From Middle English stowe, from Old English stōw (“place, location”), from Proto-West Germanic *stōu, from Proto-Germanic *stōō (“a place, stowage”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh2- (“to stand, place, put”). Cognate with Old Frisian stō (“place”), Icelandic stó (“fireplace”), Dutch stouw (“place”), German Stau (“congestion”). See also -stow.

40 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: прибирам (pribiram) — to put something away in a compact and tidy manner
• Bulgarian: подреждам (podreždam) — to put something away in a compact and tidy manner
• Finnish: pakata — to put something away in a compact and tidy manner
• French: ranger — to put something away in a compact and tidy manner
• German: verstauen — to put something away in a compact and tidy manner
• Hungarian: helyez — to put something away in a compact and tidy manner
• Hungarian: elhelyez — to put something away in a compact and tidy manner
• Hungarian: tesz — to put something away in a compact and tidy manner
• Hungarian: eltesz — to put something away in a compact and tidy manner
• Hungarian: rak — to put something away in a compact and tidy manner
• Hungarian: elrak — to put something away in a compact and tidy manner
• Italian: compattare — to put something away in a compact and tidy manner
• Italian: raggruppare — to put something away in a compact and tidy manner
• Italian: assemblare — to put something away in a compact and tidy manner
• Italian: traversare — to put something away in a compact and tidy manner
• Italian: ammainare — to put something away in a compact and tidy manner
• Italian: montare — to put something away in a compact and tidy manner
• Norwegian Bokmål: stue — to put something away in a compact and tidy manner
• Russian: укла́дывать (ukládyvatʹ) — to put something away in a compact and tidy manner
• Russian: скла́дывать (skládyvatʹ) — to put something away in a compact and tidy manner
• Spanish: estibar — to put something away in a compact and tidy manner
• Spanish: arrumar — to put something away in a compact and tidy manner
• Spanish: abarrotar — to put something away in a compact and tidy manner
• Bulgarian: сгъвам (sgǎvam) — to put something away to store it in a space-saving manner and over long time
• Bulgarian: опаковам (opakovam) — to put something away to store it in a space-saving manner and over long time
• Catalan: desar — to put something away to store it in a space-saving manner and over long time
• Catalan: emmagatzemar — to put something away to store it in a space-saving manner and over long time
• Finnish: pakata — to put something away to store it in a space-saving manner and over long time
• Finnish: panna talteen — to put something away to store it in a space-saving manner and over long time
• French: stocker — to put something away to store it in a space-saving manner and over long time
• French: garder — to put something away to store it in a space-saving manner and over long time
• French: conserver — to put something away to store it in a space-saving manner and over long time
• German: verstauen — to put something away to store it in a space-saving manner and over long time
• Hungarian: elpakol — to put something away to store it in a space-saving manner and over long time
• Hungarian: elrak — to put something away to store it in a space-saving manner and over long time
• Hungarian: elraktároz — to put something away to store it in a space-saving manner and over long time
• Italian: immagazzinare — to put something away to store it in a space-saving manner and over long time
• Russian: убира́ть (ubirátʹ) — to put something away to store it in a space-saving manner and over long time
• Spanish: guardar — to put something away to store it in a space-saving manner and over long time
• Spanish: almacenar — to put something away to store it in a space-saving manner and over long time