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stave-rhyme en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /steɪv.ɹaɪm/

Etymology

Most likely a calque of a Germanic term, such as German Stabreim or Danish stavrim.

Meanings

1. (countable, usually) A (stressed) word that rhymes with another, in that it begins with the same consonant, consonant cluster, or vowel.
   • It is better to retain it in this line, as it is one of the 3 stave-rhymes. 1860, George Stephens, Two leaves of king Waldere's lay, a hitherto unknown Old-English epic, page 72:
   • c) MNT I 58 stave-rhymes (har/am; qat/qa) and near stave-rhymes (qu/qa) in the first five words, twofold genuine stave-rhyme (ö & ki) with grammatical assonant end-rhyme (söl/sal & sön/san) in the parallel phrases on revenge 2001, Altaic affinities: proceedings of the 40th meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference (PIAC), Provo, Utah (1997), page 268:
   • The poem is littered with stave-rhymes like "start, stop".
   • The colophon penned in flowery style with stave-rhymes relates that the words of the Zaya Pandita's translation were written […] 2005, György Kara, Books of the Mongolian nomads: more than eight centuries of writing Mongolian, page 277:
2. (uncountable, usually) This kind of rhyme.
   • Now, of the Thornhill fragments, those I have numbered VII. give us part of an epitaph in stave-rhyme, conceived on the same plan as those at Dewsbury and Falstone, but with a remarkable variation; […] 1877, Daniel Henry Haigh, “On Runic Inscriptions Discovered at Thornhill”, in The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, volume 4, page 420:
   • c) MNT I 58 stave-rhymes (har/am; qat/qa) and near stave-rhymes (qu/qa) in the first five words, twofold genuine stave-rhyme (ö & ki) with grammatical assonant end-rhyme (söl/sal & sön/san) in the parallel phrases on revenge 2001, Altaic affinities: proceedings of the 40th meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference (PIAC), Provo, Utah (1997), page 268:
   • Our ancestors grounded their verse on stave-rhyme and accent […] 1860, George Stephens, Two leaves of king Waldere's lay, a hitherto unknown Old-English epic, page 22:
   • The poem exhibits stave-rhyme.

Forms

Hypernyms

rhyme

Relateds

stave

Synonyms

alliteration (broadly speaking)

Translations (6)

sv allitteration (word which rhymes) · sv stavrim (word which rhymes) · non hǫfuðstafr (word which rhymes) · bg алитерация (kind of rhyme) · de Stabreim (kind of rhyme) · non stuðill (word which rhymes)

stave-rhyme en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /steɪv.ɹaɪm/

Etymology

Most likely a calque of a Germanic term, such as German Stabreim or Danish stavrim.

Meanings

1. To exhibit this kind of rhyme.
   • Richard Kienast, in a study of the prose style of the Old High German Isidor translation, remarked that the relics of elevated celebratory composition, as the ‘stave-rhyming formulas’ were described, need to be treated. 1995, John M. Jeep, Alliterating word-pairs in Old High German, page 35:
   • To find other Old High German parallels, it is necessary to include those genres which are not composed in stave-rhyming verse. 2002, Irmengard Rauch, Gerald F. Carr, editors, New insights in Germanic linguistics III, page 120:

Forms

Relateds

end rhyme

Synonyms

alliterate (broadly speaking)

Translations (1)

de stabreimen (to exhibit this kind of rhyme)