Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/ster-

This Proto-Indo-European entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Indo-European

Root

*ster-^[1]^[2]

barren, infertile

Alternative reconstructions

*sterh₁-^[2]

Derived terms

Terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ster- (4 c, 0 e)

*ster-íh₂-s
*stér-ō ~ *str̥-nés^[3]^[4]
- Proto-Germanic: *sterǭ (see there for further descendants)
*stér-wont-s ~ *str-unt-és
- Proto-Indo-Iranian: *stárwans
  - Proto-Iranian: *stárwans
    - Middle Persian: (“barren, childless”)
      Book Pahlavi script: [Book Pahlavi needed] (stlwn' /⁠starwan⁠/)
      - Persian: سترون (setarvan)
*ster-yeh₂
- Old Armenian: ստերջ (sterǰ, “sterile, barren”), ստերդ (sterd), ըստերջ (əsterǰ)
  - Armenian: ստերջ (sterǰ)
- Ancient Greek: στεῖρα (steîra, “infertile”)

References

^ Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q., editors (1997), Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, page 51: “*ster- ‘barren, infertile’”
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Pokorny, Julius (1959) “(s)ter-, (s)terə- : (s)trē-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1022
^ Kroonen, Guus Jann (2009) Consonant and vowel gradation in the Proto-Germanic n-stems (PhD thesis)‎^[1], Leiden: Leiden University, page 156: “*stér-ōn, *str̥-n-ós”
^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “sterōn-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 478: “*ster-ōn, *str-n-ós”

[1] Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q., editors (1997), Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, page 51: “*ster- ‘barren, infertile’”

[IEW-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Pokorny, Julius (1959) “(s)ter-, (s)terə- : (s)trē-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1022

[3] Kroonen, Guus Jann (2009) Consonant and vowel gradation in the Proto-Germanic n-stems (PhD thesis)‎^[1], Leiden: Leiden University, page 156: “*stér-ōn, *str̥-n-ós”

[EDPG-4] Guus Kroonen (2013) “sterōn-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 478: “*ster-ōn, *str-n-ós”

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