Feminine
Meaning

  1. (feminine) city, town
  2. (feminine) the town/city centre

Frequency

A1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/stɑt/
Etymology

In summary

From Middle Dutch stat, from Old Dutch stat, stedi (whence stede, stee), from Proto-West Germanic *stadi, from Proto-Germanic *stadiz, from Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂tis. The plural has preserved the old Germanic umlaut in a morphological function, a rarity in Dutch. Several derived terms have umlaut as well.

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