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Cornish
Etymology
ster + -en
Noun
steren f (plural sterednow or sterennow)
- singulative of ster (“stars”)
Middle English
Verb
steren
- To incite; to lead
late 14th century, Chaucer, “The Pardoner’s prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales, (1561 edition), published 1868, page 214:And in latin I speke wordes a fewe / To sauer with my predication / And for to stere men to devocion.- And in Latin I speak a wordës few, / To saffron with my predicatión, / And for to stir men to devotión.