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Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
Uncertain; possibly from:
- Proto-Germanic *stirnijō, from Proto-Indo-European *ster(h₃)-no-m, from *sterh₃- (“to be broad, spread out”), cognate with Ancient Greek στέρνον (stérnon, “breast, chest”);[1][2]
- or methatized from *striniju, from Proto-Germanic *strinijō, from Proto-Indo-European *sren-yeh₂, from *sren- (“side”), cognate with Latin frōns (“forehead”), Proto-Iranian *rā́nah (“side; hip”), Proto-Balto-Slavic *srḗˀnas (“hip”), and related to Old Norse strind (“side”).
Noun
*stirniju f
- forehead
- Synonyms: *anþi, *þinnu
Inflection
ō-stem
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Singular
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Nominative
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*stirniju
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Genitive
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*stirnijā
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Singular
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Plural
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Nominative
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*stirniju
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*stirnijō
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Accusative
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*stirnijā
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*stirnijā
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Genitive
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*stirnijā
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*stirnijō
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Dative
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*stirnijē
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*stirnijōm, *stirnijum
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Instrumental
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*stirniju
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*stirnijōm, *stirnijum
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Descendants
References
- ^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Stirn”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 704
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “στερνόν”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1401