From Proto-Balto-Slavic *stāw-, from Proto-Indo-European *sth₂-ēw- (Author?), a form of *steh₂-.
Compare Lithuanian stovà (“place”), stõvis (“state, condition”), Latvian stàvs m, Ancient Greek στοά (stoá), Aeolic στωΐα (stōḯa, “column”), Proto-Germanic *stōō (> Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌿𐌰 (staua, “trial”), Old English stów f (“place”)).
*stavъ m
singular | dual | plural | |
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nominative | *stavъ | *stava | *stavi |
genitive | *stava | *stavu | *stavъ |
dative | *stavu | *stavoma | *stavomъ |
accusative | *stavъ | *stava | *stavy |
instrumental | *stavъmь, *stavomь* | *stavoma | *stavy |
locative | *stavě | *stavu | *stavěxъ |
vocative | *stave | *stava | *stavi |
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vol=3 Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893–1912) “ставъ”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments] (in Russian), volume, Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences