stein

From a regional use[1] of German Stein (“stone”). Probably a clipping of Steingut (“stoneware”) or Steinkrug (“stone pitcher”). Compare Old English stǣna (“stone jug, a pot of stone or earth”). More at stean.

• IPA^(key): /staɪn/

  Rhymes: -aɪn

stein (plural steins)

1. A beer mug, usually made of ceramic.
   • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 731476803:

     So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills, […] a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

   • 1974, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

     A gnome-size German civilian with a red von Hindenburg mustache is dispensing steins of what looks to be mostly head.

• Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1.

• Tiens, inset, neist, nites, senti, set in, sient, snite, tines, tsine

• stern

Possibly a corruption of stern. At any rate from Proto-Germanic *sternǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr.

stein

1. star
   • 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:

     Stein. Stella.

stein

1. indefinite accusative singular of steinn

From Old Norse steinn, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz.

• IPA^(key): /staɪn/

  Rhymes: -aɪn

stein (neuter singular stein, definite singular and plural steine)

1. (slang) stoned, under the influence of cannabis

stein m (definite singular steinen, indefinite plural steiner, definite plural steinene)

1. stone
2. pip (in citrus fruit, grapes)

• sten (Bokmål)

stein

1. imperative of steine

• “stein” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse steinn. Akin to English stone

• IPA^(key): /stæɪn/

stein (neuter singular stein, definite singular and plural steine)

1. (slang) stoned, under the influence of cannabis

stein m (definite singular steinen, indefinite plural steinar, definite plural steinane)

1. stone
2. pip (e.g. in citrus fruit, grapes, cherries)

• “stein” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *stainaz.

stein m

1. stone

• Middle High German: stein
  • Alemannic German: Steei

    Swabian: Schdoi, Schdoa

  • Bavarian: Schdoa, Schdaa
  • Central Franconian: Stään, Steen, Stein

    Hunsrik: Steen, xtayn

    Transylvanian Saxon: Stien

  • German: Stein
  • Luxembourgish: Steen
  • Vilamovian: śtan
  • Yiddish: שטיין‎ (shteyn)

stein

1. indefinite accusative singular of steinn