Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/sterbʰ-

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.

• *(s)dʰerHbʰ-

• According to LIV, the root is an example of Siebs's law, probably from *dʰer- (“to hold, to support”) enlarged by *-bʰ;

• or it could be just an enlargement of *sterh₃- (“to stretch”) or of *sterh₁- (“to be stiff”).

*sterbʰ-^[1]

1. to exert (force, work, treatment)
2. to become stiff

• *(s)dʰerbʰ-e-ti (thematic present)
  • Proto-Germanic: *sterbaną (“to become stiff”) (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Germanic: *derbaną (“to perish”) (see there for further descendants)
• *(s)dʰerbʰ-/*(s)dʰr̥bʰ-ti (aorist)
  • Balto-Slavic:
    • Proto-Slavic: *stьrbnǫti (suffixed with *-neH-)
    • Lithuanian: dirbti (“to work”)
• *storbʰ-eye-ti (causative)
  • Balto-Slavic:
    • Proto-Slavic: *storbiti
      • Old Church Slavonic: oустрабити (oustrabiti, “to relieve pain, to heal”)
• *sterbʰ-os^[2]
  • Ancient Greek: στέρφος (stérphos, “skin”)