# stapel
## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈstaː.pəl/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: sta‧pel

### Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch stapel, from Old Dutch stapal, from Proto-West Germanic *stapul, from Proto-Germanic *stapulaz. Doublet of etappe.

#### Noun

stapel m (plural stapels, diminutive stapeltje n)
* pile
* (archaic) basis, foundation, pedestal
* (historical, trade) stockpile, stock
* (lutherie) sound post
    Synonym: ziel

##### Descendants

* → Caribbean Javanese: setabel
* → Papiamentu: stapel

### Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch stapel, perhaps ultimately from a lost derivative of Proto-Germanic *stapiz (“step, stride”), referring to an insect that moves by jumps and strides.

#### Noun

stapel m (plural stapels)
* (obsolete, dialectal) cricket (or alternatively, grasshopper)
** 1597, Karel van Mander, “Vijfd' Ecloga, oft Boer-liedt”, in Bucolica en Georgica, dat is, Ossen-stal en Landt-werck, page 30:Soo lang Wildt swijn berg-top, en visch de vliet / Bemint: oock Bye van Thijm haer aes geniet / En Stapel oock van douw', soo langh sal blijven: / V eer en naem, en loflijck groot beclijven.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
** 1636, Johan de Brune (de Oude), "Emblemata X", Emblemata of Zinne-werck, page 80.
    De godvruchtighe, zeght erghens een, zijn ghelijck de mieren, die eerst moede, dan blijde zijn: maer de godlooze, gelijck de stapels, of sprinck-hanen, die eerst zinghen, en dan droeve en bekommert zijn.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

##### Derived terms

* stapeldol
* stapelgek
* stapelverliefd

##### Related terms

* stap
* stappen

#### References

* ↑ Matthias de Vries, Lambert Allard te Winkel (1864) “stapel”, in Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal, published 2001

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

stapel
* inflection of stapelen:
** first-person singular present indicative
** (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
** imperative

### Anagrams

* plaste

## German
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

stapel
* inflection of stapeln:
** first-person singular present
** singular imperative

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

From Old English stapol (“basis, pillar”).

#### Noun

stapel (plural stapels)
* post, staff, stake
* staple (U-shaped metal fastener)

##### Alternative forms

* stapil, stapile, staple, stapul, stable

##### Descendants

* English: staple
* Scots: steeple

#### References

* “stāpel, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

stapel (plural stapels)
* Alternative form of staple

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Norse stǫpull (“column, pillar”).

### Noun

stapel c
* a tall stack
    en stapel av lådora tall stack of boxes
* a bar (in a bar graph)
* (nautical) stocks
    Synonym: stapelbädd
    Tävlingen går av stapeln på tisdagThe competition will be held [goes off the stocks] on Tuesday (idiom)

#### Derived terms

* gå av stapeln
* klockstapel
* stapelavlöpning
* stapeldiagram
* stapelvara

#### Related terms

* stapla

#### Descendants

* → Finnish: taapeli

#### See also

* slip (“slipway, slip”)
* trave (“neat stack”)

### References

* stapel in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* stapel in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* stapel in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
* stapel in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
* stapel in Svenskt nautiskt lexikon (1920)

### Anagrams

* spelat