Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/stelaną
Proto-Germanic
editEtymology
editAccording to Kroonen & Lubotsky (2009), from Proto-Indo-European *tsel- (“to sneak”) (compare e.g. Sanskrit त्सर् (tsar), Shughni сӗрт (“to steal, sneak”), Old Armenian սողիմ (sołim, “to creep, to steal”)).[1] The supposed metathesis *ts > *st has no exact parallels, but a similar development appears in *spenô (“nipple”), from Proto-Indo-European *pstḗn (“breast”). Numerous other etymologies with semantic or phonetic difficulties have been earlier proposed as well.
Pronunciation
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editConjugation of *stelaną (strong class 4)
Synonyms
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editDescendants
edit- Proto-West Germanic: *stelan
- Old Norse: stela, stjala
- Gothic: 𐍃𐍄𐌹𐌻𐌰𐌽 (stilan)
- Vandalic: *stel-
References
edit- ^ Kroonen, Guus with Lubotsky, Alexander (2009) “Proto-Indo-European *tsel- 'to sneak' and Germanic *stelan- 'to steal, approach stealthily'”, in Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia[1], volume 14
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*stelan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 476
- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*stelanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[2], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 374
- ^ Seebold, Elmar (1970) “STEL-A-”, in Vergleichendes und etymologisches Wörterbuch der germanischen starken Verben (Janua Linguarum. Series practica; 85) (in German), Paris, Den Haag: Mouton, →ISBN, page 468