stonen

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 (“stonen”), German Low German stenen (“stonen”), German steinen (“stonen”).

stonen (comparative more stonen, superlative most stonen)

1. (archaic) Consisting or made of stone.
   • 1869, William Barnes, Poems of rural life in common English:

     […] And up these well-worn blocks of stone
     I came when I first ran alone,
     The stonen stairs beclimb'd the mound,
     Ere father put a foot to ground, […]

• Neston, non est, nonets, senton, sonnet, tennos, tenons, tenson, tonnes

From earlier stenen, from Old English stǣnen, from Proto-West Germanic *stainīn, Proto-Germanic *stainīnaz. Equivalent to ston +‎ -en (“made of”).

• stanene, stonene, stonon, stonun, stonyn, stoonen

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɔːnən/

stonen

1. Composed or built of stone.

   Synonym: stenen

• English: stonen

• rochen

• “stōnen(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-09.

From stone +‎ -en (infinitival suffix).

• stain, stane, stone, stoonen

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɔːnən/

stonen

1. (transitive, intransitive) To throw stones.
2. (transitive) To stone, execute using stones.
3. (intransitive) To remove or eliminate stones or rocks.

• English: stone
• Scots: stane, steen

• “stōnen, v.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-27.

From ston +‎ -en (plural suffix).

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɔːnən/

stonen

1. plural of stone