stoke

• vi.火をおこす；ストーカーになる；腹いっぱいにする
• vt.火を焚く；満腹にする
• n.（ストーク）人の名前；（英）Stoke.

オランダ語のstoken「刺す」「燃料を入れる」から、原ゲルマン語*stok「刺す」「押す」から、PIE*steig「刺す」「押す」から、語源的にはstake, stickと同じ。

stoke

stoke: [17] Stoke is a back-formation from stoker [17], which was borrowed from Dutch stoker. This in turn was derived from the verb stoken ‘put fuel into a furnace’, a descendant of Middle Dutch stoken ‘push, poke’. And stoken came from a prehistoric Germanic base *stok-, a variant of *stik-, *stek- ‘pierce, prick’, from which English gets stick, stitch, etc. So the etymological meaning underlying stoke is of ‘thrusting’ fuel into a fire like a sharp instrument being pushed into something.
=> stick, stitch

stoke (v.)

1680s, "to feed and stir up a fire in a fireplace or furnace," back-formation from stoker (1650s); ultimately from Dutch stoken "to stoke," from Middle Dutch stoken "to poke, thrust," related to stoc "stick, stump," from Proto-Germanic *stok- "pierce, prick," from PIE *steug-, extended form of root *(s)teu- (1) "to push, stick, knock, beat" (see stick (v.)).

Meaning "to stir up, rouse" (feelings, etc.) is from 1837. Stoked "enthusiastic" recorded in surfer slang by 1963, but the extension of the word to persons is older, originally "to eat, to feed oneself up" (1882).

Having "stoked up," as the men called it, the brigades paraded at 10.30 a.m., ready for the next stage of the march. ["Cassell's History of the Boer War," 1901]

1. A friend of his is having a do in Stoke .

彼の友人の一人がストークで宴会を開いている。

2.These demands are helping to stoke fears of civil war.

これらの要求は内戦への恐怖を助長している。

3.They 've just opened a new hotel in the Stoke area.

彼らはストーク地区に新しいホテルをオープンしたばかりだ。

4.to stoke up a fire with more coal

火に石炭を追加

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5.He continued to stoke up hatred in his speeches.

彼は話の中で人々の恨みを深め続けている。