Sten

sten stěn sten- English Alternative forms en STEN STEn sten Etymology 1 en Shepherd, Turpin, Enfield. From the names of the weapon's chief designers, Major Reginald Shepherd and Harold Turpin, and EN for Enfield. Noun The Sten gun, a family of British 9-millimeter submachine guns used extensively by British and Commonwealth forces throughout World War II, the Korean War and other conflicts. Etymology 2 From en gmq Sten (en da Sten, en sv Sten, en no Sten). Proper noun s en North Germanic languages Stone, equivalent of en Peter or en Peters (Petros - stone, rock) en Steen Translations Danish: da Sten Norwegian: no Sten Swedish: sv Sten Anagrams en enst NETs tens TENS NEST nets sent. ENTs Ents Nest ents snet nest sent en eponyms en Firearms Danish Etymology A less common form of da Steen, from da non Steinn. Proper noun da proper noun da male Old Norse Estonian Etymology From et sv Sten, interpreted as a variant of sv Stefan in Estonia. Proper noun et proper noun et male Swedish Norwegian Etymology Less common form of no Stein, from no non Steinn. Proper noun no proper noun no male Old Norse Swedish Etymology From sv non Steinn, from non steinn stone. Pronunciation sv LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Sten.wav Proper noun c sv male Old Norse Related terms (male given names) sv Sixten, sv Torsten, sv Östen (surnames) sv Stensson References Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, 91-21-10937-0 Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, 9119551622: 25 566 males with the given name Sten living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1930s. Accessed on 19 June 2011. Anagrams sv enst sent tens