• IPA^(key): /ˈstaː.pəl/

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• Hyphenation: sta‧pel

From Middle Dutch stapel, from Old Dutch stapal, from Proto-West Germanic *stapul, from Proto-Germanic *stapulaz. Doublet of etappe.

stapel m (plural stapels, diminutive stapeltje n)

1. pile
2. (archaic) basis, foundation, pedestal
3. (historical, trading) stockpile, stock
4. (lutherie) sound post

   Synonym: ziel

• → Caribbean Javanese: setabel
• → Papiamentu: stapel

From Middle Dutch stapel, perhaps ultimately from a lost derivative of Proto-Germanic *stapiz (“step, stride”), referring to an insect that moves by jumps and strides.^[1]

stapel m (plural stapels, no diminutive)

1. (obsolete, dialectal) cricket (or alternatively, grasshopper)
   • 1597, Karel van Mander, “Vijfd' Ecloga, oft Boer-liedt”, in Bucolica en Georgica, dat is, Ossen-stal en Landt-werck, page 30:

     Soo lang Wildt swijn berg-top, en visch de vliet / Bemint: oock Bye van Thijm haer aes geniet / En Stapel oock van douw', soo langh sal blijven: / V eer en naem, en loflijck groot beclijven.

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   • 1636, Johan de Brune (de Oude), "Emblemata X", Emblemata of Zinne-werck, page 80.

     De godvruchtighe, zeght erghens een, zijn ghelijck de mieren, die eerst moede, dan blijde zijn: maer de godlooze, gelijck de stapels, of sprinck-hanen, die eerst zinghen, en dan droeve en bekommert zijn.

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• stapeldol
• stapelgek
• stapelverliefd

• stap
• stappen

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

stapel

1. inflection of stapelen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

• plaste

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stapel

1. inflection of stapeln:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative

Borrowed from Javanese [Term?], from Dutch stapel (“pile”), from Middle Dutch stapel, from Old Dutch stapal, from Proto-West Germanic *stapul, from Proto-Germanic *stapulaz.

stapel (plural stapel-stapel)

1. pile of compost or sap, in the form of a cube with a diameter of approximately 1 m

• “stapel”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

From Old English stapol (“basis, pillar”).

stapel (plural stapels)

1. post, staff, stake
2. staple (U-shaped metal fastener)

• stapil, stapille, staple, stapul, stable

• English: staple
• Scots: steeple

• “stāpel, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

stapel (plural stapels)

1. alternative form of staple

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɑ.pel/

stapel m

1. alternative form of stapol

Strong a-stem:

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From Old Norse stǫpull (“column, pillar”).

stapel c

1. a tall stack

   en stapel av lådor

   a tall stack of boxes

2. a bar (in a bar graph)
3. (nautical) stocks

   Synonym: stapelbädd

   Tävlingen går av stapeln på tisdag

   The competition will be held [goes off the stocks] on Tuesday (idiom)

• gå av stapeln
• klockstapel
• stapelavlöpning
• stapeldiagram
• stapelvara

• stapla

• → Finnish: taapeli

• slip (“slipway, slip”)
• trave (“neat stack”)

• “stapel”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “stapel”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “stapel”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• stapel in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
• stapel in Svenskt nautiskt lexikon (1920)

• spelat

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