Stone
/stoʊn/noun
A hard, solid nonmetallic mineral matter; a piece of rock.
Did you know?Stone comes from a Proto-Germanic root shared across Germanic languages, and its oldest relatives point to the basic idea of a hard, fixed object rather than any mystical meaning.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*steh₂-
“to stand, make or be firm”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*stainaz
“stone, rock”
Old English
OE
stān
“stone, rock”
Middle English
EN
stoon / stone
“stone, rock”
Modern English
English
stone
“a hard, solid piece of rock”