stangとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 stang, stong, from Old Norse stǫng, from Proto-Germanic *stangiz, *stangō (“bar, rod”), from Proto-Indo-European *stengʰ-, *stegʰ- (“to stick, sting, prick, be stiff”).

名詞

stang (plural stangs)

1. (Wicca, paganism) A forked ritual staff.
   • 2006 January 7, Lady Sabrina, Exploring Wicca, Updated Edition, →ISBN, page 87:

     The stang represents the horned god and the masculine force of nature. Much like the wand or athame, the stang is used for raising or directing power […]

   • 2009 June 22, Yowie, “Sikh Quaker?”, in soc.religion.quaker‎:

     In more common (and private) Wiccan circles, the stang is replaced by the athame (black handled knife) and the cauldron replaced with the chalice but its pretty much /whatever works for you/.

   • 2014 January 8, Ann Moura, Green Witchcraft: Folk Magic, Fairy Lore & Herb Craft, →ISBN, page 7:

     These stangs can be used as natural altars in outdoor rituals or simply as walking staffs.

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. (obsolete or historical) 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.")

派生語

• stang ball
• ride the stang

語源 2

From 中期英語 stangen, from Old Norse stanga (“prick, goad”).

動詞

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.

語源 3

動詞

stang

1. (dialect, rare) simple past of sting

語源 4

名詞

stang (plural stangs)

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

アナグラム

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

動詞

stang

1. first/third-person singular preterite indicative of stingan

別の表記

• stange, stong

発音

• IPA: /ˈstanɡ/, /ˈstaːnɡ/, /ˈstɔnɡ/, /ˈstɔ̝ːnɡ/

名詞

stang (plural stanges) (chiefly Northern)

1. A pole; a wooden bar.
2. A sting or bite.
3. A stinger (barbed point of an insect)

派生した語

• English: stang, stong
• Scots: stang, stong

参照

• “stang, n.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “stang, n.(2)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• Dance, Richard; Pons-Sanz, Sara; Schorn, Brittany (2019), “stange n”, in The Gersum Project ⁠‎, University of Cambridge, University of Cardiff, and the University of Sheffield.

語源 2

動詞

stang

1. alternative form of stangen