Stammvater
German, noun
Stammvater is spelled S-T-A-M-M-V-A-T-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 64,132nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Stammvater is a German masculine noun meaning “progenitor” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an umlaut, Stammväter is a different word: “nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Stammvater”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “männlicher Begründer eines Geschlechts, einer Sippe, eines Stammes oder eines Volkes von Menschen”.
What does Stammvater mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineprogenitor
noun
- 1
nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Stammvater
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. männlicher Begründer eines Geschlechts, einer Sippe, eines Stammes oder eines Volkes von Menschen
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Stammvater
- Stammvaters genitive
- Stammväter plural
- Stammvätern dative definite plural
- Stammmutter feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Stammvater
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Stammvater in German?
Stammvater appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).