Stane
/steɪn/noun
A Scots and northern English form of “stone,” meaning a hard, naturally occurring mineral substance.
Did you know?“Stane” preserves the older Germanic vowel pattern found in words such as German Stein, making it a living trace of medieval northern English and Scots speech.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*stey-no-
“Stone or hard substance; a reconstructed root associated with stone.”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*stainaz
“Stone or rock.”
Old English
Old English
stān
“Stone, rock, or a stone structure.”
Middle English
Middle English
stan
“Stone; the spelling later developed regional forms such as stane.”
Modern Scots
Scots
stane
“Stone; a standard Scots and northern English form.”