Stau

Bedeutung (English)

1. (masculine,strong) congestion, stagnancy of water or anything dammed or otherwise backed-up
2. (abbreviation,alt-of,especially,masculine,strong) Short for Verkehrsstau (“traffic jam”).
3. (masculine,strong) weir

Synonyms

Verkehrsstau

Stauung

Stockung

Rückstau

Gedränge

Staudamm

Stausee

Verkehrsstockung

Verkehrsstauung

Stop and Go

zähfließender Verkehr

Andrang

Blechlawine

Autoschlange

Blutandrang

Engpass

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/ʃtaʊ̯/

Etymologie (English)

Borrowed from Niederdeutsch: Stau

Cognate with Niederländisch: stuw

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.

Sätze

Gibt es Stau heute morgen ?

Is there traffic jam this morning?

Gibt es einen Stau auf dem Weg zur Arbeit ?

Is there a traffic jam on the way to work?