different between strang vs stang

English

Adjective

strang (comparative stranger, superlative strangest)

1. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Alternative form of strong

Anagrams

• Grants, grants

Middle English

Noun

strang

1. Alternative form of straunge

Old English

Alternative forms

• strong

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *strangaz, from the Proto-Indo-European *streng?- (“stiff, tight”). Cognate with Old Saxon strang, Old High German strangi, Old Norse strangr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /str?n?/, [str???]

Adjective

strang (comparative strengra, superlative stren?est)

1. strong

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: strong, stronge, stronke, stron, strange, straunge
  • English: strong
  • Scots: strang
  • Yola: straung

References

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse strangr, from Proto-Germanic *strangaz, from Proto-Indo-European *streng?- (“taut, stiff, tight”).

Pronunciation

• (Lövånger) IPA^(key): [str????]
• (Burträsk) IPA^(key): [strá??]
• (Luleå) IPA^(key): [str??k]
• (Kalix) IPA^(key): [str????k]

  Rhymes: -á??

Adjective

strang (comparative strangan, superlative strangest)

1. strict, severe, stern
2. thin

   kalven jer lang å strang

   the calf is long and thin

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: st?ng, IPA^(key): /stæ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Etymology 1

From Middle English stange, partly from Old Norse st?ng; partly from Old English stæng, steng, stenge (“pole, rod, bar, stake, stick”); both from Proto-Germanic *stang?, *stangiz (“bar, rod”), from Proto-Indo-European *steng?-, *steg?- (“to stick, sting, prick, be stiff”).

Noun

stang (plural stangs)

1. (Wicca, paganism) A forked ritual staff.
2. (archaic or obsolete) A long bar; a pole; a shaft; a stake.
   • 1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

     Gripping the stang, she peered / At ghostly trees. Bus stopped. Bus disappeared.

3. (archaic or obsolete) In land measure, a pole, rod, or perch.
   • 1880, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels into several Remote Nations of the World - Part I, Chapter II (Page 15)

     These fields were intermingled with woods of half a stang,*... (with the corresponding footnote: "An old word for a perch, sixteen feet and a half. These small woods were therefore eight feet and a quarter.")

Derived terms

• stang ball
• ride the stang

Etymology 2

From Old Norse stanga (“prick, goad”).

Verb

stang (third-person singular simple present stangs, present participle stanging, simple past and past participle stanged)

1. (intransitive, Scotland) To shoot with pain, to sting.
2. (transitive, Scotland) To spear; to sting.

Etymology 3

Verb

stang

1. (dialect, rare) simple past tense of sting

Etymology 4

Noun

stang (plural stangs)

1. (slang, US) Short for "Mustang", a brand of automobile produced by the Ford Motor Company.

Anagrams

• 'ganst, Gnats, Tangs, Tsang, angst, gnast, gnat's, gnats, tangs

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse st?ng.

Noun

stang c (singular definite stangen, plural indefinite stænger)

1. bar
2. rod
3. pole
4. crossbar

Inflection

Derived terms

• stangdrukken (adjective)
• stangspring n
• stangtøj n

References

• “stang” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??

Noun

stang m (plural stangen, diminutive stangetje n)

1. bar

See also

• baar f
• blok n
• staaf f

Anagrams

• angst

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse st?ng

Noun

stang f or m (definite singular stanga or stangen, indefinite plural stenger, definite plural stengene)

1. a bar, pole, rod, lever, staff, stick, shaft
2. rod, 3.1374 metres

Derived terms

• flaggstang
• jernstang

See also

• stong (Nynorsk)

References

• “stang” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “stang_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Swedish

Verb

stang

1. past tense of stinga.

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse st?ng, from Proto-Germanic *stang?.

Noun

stang f (definite singular stanga, dative stangen, definite plural stängren)

1. bar, rod, pole

Derived terms

• fällstang
• staang