Masculí

Stau

Frases

Significat

Gibt es Stau heute morgen ?

Is there traffic jam this morning?

Llegeix-ne més

Gibt es einen Stau auf dem Weg zur Arbeit ?

Is there a traffic jam on the way to work?

Llegeix-ne més

(Anglès)

(masculine, strong) congestion, stagnancy of water or anything dammed or otherwise backed-up
(abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, especially, masculine, strong) ellipsis of Verkehrsstau (“traffic jam”)
(masculine, strong) weir

Freqüència

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ʃtaʊ̯/

Manllevat de baix alemany

Cognat amb neerlandès

In summary

18th century, from Low German Stau, from Middle Low German stouw, stouwe (“weir”), probably a back-formation from stouwen (“to stop, dam”), from Old Saxon *stōwa, from Proto-West Germanic *stōu, ultimately derived from Proto-Germanic *stōō (“place”). Cognate with Dutch stuw. Alternatively the Dutch and Low German forms could be inherited from the Germanic noun (like English stow), but the sense makes a new deverbal derivation more likely.