Stollen

See also: stollen and stolen

German

Alternative forms

• Stolln

Etymology

From Middle High German stolle, from Old High German stollo (“prop, post”), from Proto-Germanic *stullô (“support, post”), from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to put, place, locate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃtɔlən/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Noun

Stollen m (strong, genitive Stollens, plural Stollen)

1. (mining, geology) gallery; tunnel (long cavity in rock, usually man-made, but sometimes natural)
2. (sports) stud; cleat (protrusion on a shoe, especially a football shoe)
3. (cooking) stollen (kind of cake)

Declension

Declension of Stollen [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Stollen	die	Stollen
genitive	eines	des	Stollens	der	Stollen
dative	einem	dem	Stollen	den	Stollen
accusative	einen	den	Stollen	die	Stollen

Derived terms

• Christstollen
• Schraubstollen
• Stollenbau
• Stolleneinbruch
• Stollenschuh

Descendants

• → Czech: štóla
• → English: stollen
• → Norwegian Bokmål: stoll
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: stoll

Further reading

• “Stollen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Stollen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Stollen” in Duden online
• Stollen on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de