Stollen

== German == === Alternative forms === Stolln (kind of cake): Stolle (Northern and Central Germany) === Etymology === From Middle High German stolle, from Old High German stollo (“prop, post”), from Proto-Germanic *stullô (“support, post”), from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to put, place, locate”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈʃtɔlən/ === Noun === Stollen m (strong, genitive Stollens, plural Stollen) (mining, geology) gallery; tunnel (long cavity in rock, usually man-made, but sometimes natural) (sports) stud; cleat (protrusion on a shoe, especially a football shoe) (cooking) stollen (kind of cake) ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== Christstollen Schraubstollen Stollenbau Stolleneinbruch Stollenschuh ==== Descendants ==== → Czech: štóla → English: stollen → Norwegian Bokmål: stoll → Norwegian Nynorsk: stoll === Further reading === “Stollen”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “Stollen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “Stollen” in Duden online Stollen on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de