Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryAs hard as stone. · Containing or made up of stones. · Of a person, lacking warmth and emotion. · Of an action or expression, such as a look, showing no warmth of emotion; (usually also) emotionally cold, silent, and motionless or nearly so.
From Middle English stony, stoni, stani, from Old English stāniġ, stǣniġ (“stony, rocky”), from Proto-Germanic *stainagaz (“stony”), equivalent to stone + -y. Cognate with Scots stany (“stony”), West Frisian stienich (“stony”), Dutch stenig (“stony, metalled”), German steinig (“stony, rocky, gravelly”), Swedish stenig (“stony, rocky, pebbly”).
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- Inherited-form mentionstonyenm
- Inherited-form mentionstāniġang
- Inherited-form mention*stainagazgem-pro · stony
- Word-formation componentstoneen
- Word-formation component-yen
- Cognate mentionstanysco · stony
- Cognate mentionstienichfy · stony
- Cognate mentionstenignl · stony, metalled
- Cognate mentionsteinigde · stony, rocky, gravelly
- Cognate mentionstenigsv · stony, rocky, pebbly
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