ställa
“ställa” is a Swedish word. Its 9 meanings in English:
verb
- to place upright somewhere, to place in a standing position (not in a lying position)
- to go stand somewhere
- to get on one's feet; to get up
- to set or adjust (a setting, or a clock)
- to assume a position with regards to something (abstract)
- to make someone speechless with confusion; to make someone lost for words
- to ask, to pose
- to make (demands)
- to make (a diagnosis)
Etymology
From Old Swedish stælla, from Middle Low German stellen (“to position, place upright”), from Old Saxon stellian, from Proto-West Germanic *stalljan.
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