Masculin

Stau

Phrases

Signification

Gibt es Stau heute morgen ?

Y a-t-il des embouteillages ce matin?

Gibt es einen Stau auf dem Weg zur Arbeit ?

Y a-t-il un embouteillage sur le chemin du travail?

(Anglais)

(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

Fréquence

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ʃtaʊ̯/

Emprunté à bas-allemand

Appartenant à néerlandais

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.