Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/stelaną
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
According to Kroonen & Lubotsky (2009), from Proto-Indo-European *tsel- (“to sneak”) (compare e.g. Sanskrit त्सर् (tsar), Shughni се̂рт (sêrt, “to steal, sneak”), Old Armenian սողիմ (sołim, “to creep, to steal”)). 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
Verb
*stelaną
Inflection
Conjugation of *stelaną (strong class 4)
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *stelan
- Old Norse: stela, stjala
- Icelandic: stela
- Faroese: stjala
- Norwegian:
- Old Swedish: stæla, stiala, stiæla
- Swedish: stjäla
- Old Danish: stælæ, stialæ, stiælæ
- Danish: stjæle
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- Elfdalian: stjälå
- Jamtish: stjæła
- Gutnish: stjäle
- Scanian: stjæla
- Gothic: 𐍃𐍄𐌹𐌻𐌰𐌽 (stilan)
References
- 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