Stift in Composits
As a component the term Stift today usually takes the copulative "s" when used as a preceding compound. Composit terms frequently found are such as Stiftsadel (vassal nobility of a prince-bishopric), Stiftsamtmann (=official of a Stift), Stiftsbibliothek (=library financed with the funds of a collegiate Stift), Stiftsdame (=conventual in a Lutheran women's endowment), Stiftsfehde (feud with a prince-bishopric involved), Stiftsfrau (=collegiate canoness), Stiftsfräulein (=conventual in a Lutheran women's endowment), Stiftsgymnasium (=highschool financed with the funds of a collegiate Stift), Stiftsherr (collegiate canon), Stiftsmann (plural: Stiftsleute; =vassal tenant of an estate of a Stift), Stiftssasse (=subject/inhabitant of a prince-bishopric), Stiftsstände (=estates of a prince-bishopric as a realm), or Stiftstag (diet of the estates of a prince-bishopric).
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