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stile¹

  • /staɪl/ US, UK

Sounds like style, Styal · Rhymes with -aɪl

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Proto-Indo-European *steygʰ-

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *stéygʰeti

Proto-Germanic *stīganą

Proto-West Germanic *stīgan

Proto-West Germanic *-i

Proto-West Germanic *stigi

Proto-Indo-European *-lósder.?

Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr

Proto-Indo-European *-tromder.?

Proto-Germanic *-ilaz

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Germanic *-ō

Proto-Germanic *ilō

Proto-West Germanic *-ilu

Proto-West Germanic *stigilu

Old English stiġel

Middle English stile

English stile

From Middle English stile, style, stiȝele, from Old English stiġel (“stile, set of steps for getting over a fence”), from Proto-West Germanic *stigilu, from Proto-Germanic *stigilō (“entry, entrance, overpass, device for climbing, stile”), equivalent to sty (“to ascend, climb”) + -le. Cognate with Dutch stegel (“stirrup”), Low German Stegel (“stile”), German Stiegel (“stile”).

noun stiles · style

  1. A set of one or more steps surmounting a fence or wall, or a narrow gate or contrived passage through a fence or wall, which in either case allows people but not livestock to pass. 'Twas very true what Greening said; for of a summer evening I would take the path that led up Weatherbeech Hill, behind the Manor; both because 'twas a walk that had a good prospect in itself, and also a sweet charm for me, namely, the hope of seeing Grace Maskew. And there I often sat upon the stil
  2. A vertical component of a frame or panel, such as that of a door, window, or ladder.

stile²

  • /staɪl/ US, UK

Sounds like style, Styal · Rhymes with -aɪl

Where it comes from

See the etymology at style.

noun stiles

  1. obsolete Obsolete form of style.style May I not write in such a ſtile as this? / In ſuch a method too, and yet not miſs / Mine end, thy good? why may it not be done?

verb stiles · stiling · stiled

  1. obsolete Obsolete form of style.style They are graciously and lovingly received, the Mayor hath thanks for his late bloody Act, which was stiled and excellent piece of Justice

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