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sten

Pronunciation: /steːn/

“sten” is a Swedish word. Its 4 meanings in English:

noun

  1. a stone; a rock
  2. a pebble
  3. a boulder
  4. stone; rock

Etymology

From Old Swedish sten, from Old Norse steinn, from Proto-Norse ᛊᛏᚨᛁᚾᚨᛉ (stainaʀ), from Proto-Germanic *stainaz, ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European *steyh₂-.

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