Noun: stem
Gender: Feminine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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Zij is haar stem kwijt. (She’s lost her voice.)
Nouns inflected like stem
schram,
waarborgsom,
stekelbrem,
oorlogstrom,
ouderdom,
boomstam,
atoombom,
bermbom,
optelsom,
dwangsom,
zwemkom,
borgsom,
echte tonderzwam,
schijnstam,
sneeuwbom,
groothertogdom,
zakkam,
vorstbisdom,
oesterzwam,
gasvlam, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle Dutch stemme, from Old Dutch *stemma, from Proto-West Germanic *stebnu, from Proto-Germanic *stebnō, *stamnijō. Under influence of Latin vox (“voice, word”), it acquired the now obsolete sense of “word”.
Verbs referencing "stem"
English Nouns
steven, German Nouns
Stimme.
Translations