stight

词形变化

stights 三单 stighting 现在分词 stighted 过去式 stighted 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    to found; establish; set

    废旧 及物

词源

From Middle English stighten, stiȝten, from Old English stihtan, stihtian (“to dispose, arrange, regulate, direct, rule; instigate, incite”), from Proto-West Germanic *stihtijan, *stihtōn, from Proto-Germanic *stihtiz (“a step, track, overpass”), from Proto-Indo-European *steygʰ- (“to go, climb”). Related to German stiften and Dutch stichten.

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