[Sidenote: STADT and STATT (Ger.), STEDE, or STEAD (A.S.),] a place or town; _gestade_, a station for ships; _stadel_, a small town; _staeth_, a bank or shore; _e.g._ Carlstadt, TheresienStadt, Christianstadt (towns named after one of the German emperors, Charles, after the Empress Theresa, and after Christian IV. of Sweden); Darmstadt, Illstadt, Stadt-Steinach, Lippstadt (towns on the Rivers Darm, Ill, Steinach, and Lippe); Bleistadt (lead town), near lead mines; Brahestadt, in Russia (founded by Count Brahe); Elizabethstadt, Hung. _Ebes-falva_, named after the Empress Elizabeth; Frederickstadt (Frederick’s town), in Denmark and in Norway; Gerbstadt, in Saxony (the town of Gerbert); Glückstadt, Lat. _Fanum-fortunæ_ (the fortunate town or the temple of fortune); Halbertstadt (the town of Albert); Heiligenstadt (holy town); Hermanstadt (the town of Herman, one of the Germans who colonised certain German cities in Transylvania in the twelfth century); Ingoldstadt, in Bavaria (the town of Ingold)--the name of this town was mistranslated by Latin and Greek authors into _Auripolis_ and _Chrysopolis_ (the golden city); Rudolstadt (the town of Rudolph); Grimstadt, in Norway, and Grimstead, in Co. Wilts (the town of Grim, a common Scandinavian name); Stade (the station), in Hanover; Scoppenstadt, in Brunswick, anc. _Scipingestete_ (the ship station); Stadt-am-hop (the town at the court), in Bavaria; Tennstadt, anc. _Dannenstedi_ (the station of the Danes), in Saxony; Kroppenstadt, the Germanised form of the Sclav. _Grobenstadt_ (the count’s town); Reichstadt (rich town); Altstadt (old town); Elstead, in Sussex and in Surrey (the place of Ella, the Saxon); Stadhampton (the town at the home place), in Oxford; Thaxsted (the thatched place), in Essex; Boxstead (the place of beech-trees, or of the Bokings, a patronymic); Hampstead (the home place); Wanstead (Woden’s place); Armenianstadt, in Transylvania, colonised by Armenians in 1726; Staithes (the banks), in Cumberland; Stathern (the dwelling on the bank), Leicester; Halstead, A.S. _Haelsted_ (a healthy place). [Sidenote: STAEF, STAUF (Teut.), STAV (Scand.),] a stake or pole, also, in Germany, applied to a perpendicular rock; _e.g._ Stauffenberg (the mountain with pillar-like rocks), in Lower Hesse; Donaustauff (the steep rock on the Danube); Hohenstauffen (the high rocks), in Wurtemberg; Regenstauf (the rock on the R. Regen); Staufen (a fort situated on a rock), in Baden; Staffa (the island with the pillar-like rocks), off the coast of Argyleshire; Staffenloch (the lake of the pillars), in the Island of Skye. [Sidenote: STAL, STUHL (Teut.), STELLE,] a stall, place, or seat; _e.g._ Hohenstellen (the high place); Herstal (the place of the army); Tunstall (the place on the hill, _dun_), in Co. Stafford. [Sidenote: STAN (A.S.), STEIN (Ger.), STEEN (Dutch),]