stāvēt
Pronunciation: [stāːvɛ̂ːt]
“stāvēt” is a Latvian word. Its 19 meanings in English:
verb
- to stand (to be in an upright position, supported by one's legs)
- to stand (to be in an upright position, resting on its base, so that it does not fall over)
- to stand, to work, to be (to perform some activity, to do one's work, one's duty, usually in an upright position)
- to stop (to interrupt one's motion, to remain immobile)
- to stop, to not be in motion (somewhere)
- to stop, to not work
- to be, to hover (to hover, to remain in the air, without much changing position)
- to stand (to not be done, to not progress, to not be carried out)
- to be, to be located (to occupy a certain position, place)
- to be, to be kept (to be stored, conserved, kept somewhere)
- to stand, to remain somewhere; to be somewhere (e.g., in order to observe something)
- to be in a certain territory, place
- to be visible in a certain position
- to occur somewhere
- to be written, printed somewhere; to be present in a text, utterance
- to stand (to remain, to resist against time, to conserve itself)
- to stand, to sit (to conform well to the body, its parts)
- to stand, to be (to have some property, especially for a limited amount of time)
- to stand, to be (in a situation, state), to go (in a certain way)
Etymology
From Proto-Baltic *stā-, from Proto-Indo-European *stā- < *steh₂- (“to stand”), whence also Latvian stāt, of which stāvēt was originally the iterative-durative form. Initially stāvēt was an i-stem, hence the older conjugated forms stāvju, stāvim, stāvit. The derived prefixed forms of stāvēt have often developed independent meanings (e.g. aizstāvēt (“to defend”), or pārstāvēt (“to represent”)),…
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