Männlich

Stau

Bedeutung (Englisch)

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

Synonyme

Stockung

Verkehrsstockung

Verkehrsstauung

Stop and Go

zähfließender Verkehr

Blutandrang

Frequenz

C2
Ausgesprochen als (IPA)
/ʃtaʊ̯/
Etymologie (Englisch)

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.

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