stickle

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

A sharp point; prickle; a spine

Adj

1. Steep; high; inaccessible.
2. (UK, dialectal) High, as the water of a river; swollen; sweeping; rapid.

Verb

1. (British, dialectal, obsolete) To act as referee or arbiter; to mediate.
2. (British, archaic, dialectal) To argue or struggle for.
3. (British, dialectal) To raise objections; to argue stubbornly, especially over minor or trivial matters.
4. (British, dialectal, obsolete, transitive) To separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants.
5. (British, dialectal, obsolete, transitive) To intervene in; to stop, or put an end to, by intervening.
6. (British, dialectal, intransitive, obsolete) To separate combatants by intervening.
7. (British, dialectal, intransitive, obsolete) To contend, contest, or altercate, especially in a pertinacious manner on insufficient grounds.

Sinonieme

advocate

assert

champion

contend

defend

haggle

hesitate

maintain

scruple

stand up for

vindicate

have one’s doubts

Vertalings

verfechten

défendre

préconiser

professer

sostenere

propugnare

bepleiten

verdedigen

voorstaan

vorstaan

advogar

argumentar

apologizar

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈstɪk(ə)l/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: *stikel

Geërf van Old English: sticel

Verwante met Nederlands: stekel

Verwante met Yslands: stikill

Verwante met Goties: 𐍃𐍄𐌹𐌺𐌻𐍃

Verwante met Russies: стекло́

Verwante met Litaus: stìklas

Geërf van Middle English: stikel

In summary

From Middle English *stikel, *stykyl (in compounds), from Old English sticel (“a prickle, sting, goad”), from Proto-Germanic *stiklaz, *stikilaz (“sting, stinger, peak, cup, goblet”), related to the verb *stikaną (“to stick”). Cognate with Dutch stekel, Icelandic stikill, Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌹𐌺𐌻𐍃 (stikls) (whence Russian стекло́ (stekló, “glass”), Polish szkło (“glass”), Lithuanian sti̇̀klas, Romanian sticlă).