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stāvēt

Pronunciation: [stāːvɛ̂ːt]

“stāvēt” is a Latvian word. Its 19 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to stand (to be in an upright position, supported by one's legs)
  2. to stand (to be in an upright position, resting on its base, so that it does not fall over)
  3. to stand, to work, to be (to perform some activity, to do one's work, one's duty, usually in an upright position)
  4. to stop (to interrupt one's motion, to remain immobile)
  5. to stop, to not be in motion (somewhere)
  6. to stop, to not work
  7. to be, to hover (to hover, to remain in the air, without much changing position)
  8. to stand (to not be done, to not progress, to not be carried out)
  9. to be, to be located (to occupy a certain position, place)
  10. to be, to be kept (to be stored, conserved, kept somewhere)
  11. to stand, to remain somewhere; to be somewhere (e.g., in order to observe something)
  12. to be in a certain territory, place
  13. to be visible in a certain position
  14. to occur somewhere
  15. to be written, printed somewhere; to be present in a text, utterance
  16. to stand (to remain, to resist against time, to conserve itself)
  17. to stand, to sit (to conform well to the body, its parts)
  18. to stand, to be (to have some property, especially for a limited amount of time)
  19. 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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