stonen

Meaning

Adjective

• Consisting or made of stone.

Origin

• From Middle English stonen, alteration (due to stone) of earlier stenen, from Old English stǣnen ("stony; of stone, hard as stone; stone, made of stone, built of stone"), from Proto-Germanic *stainīnaz ("made of stone"), equivalent to stone + -en. Cognate with Dutch stenen, German Low German stenen, German steinen.