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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
According 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
Verb
*stelaną[2][3][4]
- to steal
- to sneak
Inflection
Conjugation of
*stelaną (strong class 4)
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References
- ^ Kroonen, Guus with Lubotsky, Alexander (2009) “Proto-Indo-European *tsel- 'to sneak' and Germanic *stelan- 'to steal, approach stealthily'”, in Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia, volume 14
- ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*stelan-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 476
- ^ Vladimir Orel (2003) “*stelanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden, Boston: 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