I believe there has to be a connection here
somewhere
Collins dictionary in English gives
Steeple a tall ornamental tower on a church
roof
Spire the tall cone-shaped structure on the top of a
church
do the two words have some mutual origin unless we may say
Spire is of Latin origin
and steeple obviously far more likely to be of Norse
origin
Since the two words have almost identical meaning, can we
see a connection here, and my thanks to you for calling my description
logical, my logic is not one of my best points
It can be slightly twisted like the Spire of the AllSaints
Church in Chesterfield, or is it a steeple
> I would say that they approached this
marvel, and the Steeple became > apparent first, that is not
Archaeology but Geography, if you approach a > church (with steeple)
from a bending/winding road you see the steeple's > top then the
steeple and so on. > But then upon nearer view, they
noticed the tower, which had not it's > "roots/foundations" in the
earth and thus seemed suspended from the > steeple, an Architectural
Miracle Llama Nom nothing more. > A better explanation for
this effect is to visualise the approach of a > Tea Clipper at sea,
first you get the flags then the mast/sails, and > then the ship,
because if the Earth were flat, then you would see the > ship's
"Pointed end" first, but you do not.
That actually seems like a
fairly logical explanation.
I'm not familiar with "spire" as a
possible meaning for 'stöpull',
though.