As nouns the difference between stern and stem is that stern is nautical the rear part or after end of a ship or vessel or stern can be a bird the black tern while stem is the stock of a family.

Stern boat etymology. 1400 from Old French poupe stern of a ship 14c from Old Provençal or Italian poppa from Latin puppis poop stern a word of uncertain origin. The stern end of a ship is indicated with a white. Bow of a boat.

Major portion of mayang hull is built using teak wood. Many centuries ago ships were always moored on the left side. Vessel structures are largely bilaterally symmetrical meaning they have mirror-image left and right halves if divided sagittally.

From Middle Dutch boech or Old Norse bógr shoulder. The helm or tiller of a vessel or boat. The name mayang comes from payang a type of seine used by local fishermen.

Originally the term only referred to the aft port section of the ship but eventually came to refer to the entire back of a vessel. The horizontal beam on a cross or gallows. The right side of a pleasure craft when looking forward.

Or the word may come from Old Frisian stiarne rudder which also is related to steer v. Star Buck and others doubt the old suggestion that it is a borrowing from Akkadian istar venus The See definitions of ster-. Figuratively usually attributively Items that have arrived over the transom.

Probably an alteration of Latin trānstrum crossbeam. Also a deck above the ordinary deck on the aftermost part of a ship. Stern of a boat.