Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/ster-

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.

Proto-Indo-European

Root

*ster-[1]

sterile, infertile

Alternative reconstructions

*sterh₁-[1]

Derived terms

Terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ster-

*ster-íh₂-s
*stér-ō ~ *str̥-nés[2][3]
- Proto-Germanic: *sterǭ (see there for further descendants)
*stér-wont-s ~ *str-unt-és
- Proto-Indo-Iranian: *stárwans
  - Proto-Iranian: *stárwans
    - Middle Persian: (“barren, childless”)
      Book Pahlavi: [Book Pahlavi needed] (stlwn' /starwan/)
      - Persian: سترون‎ (setarvan)
*ster-yeh₂
- Old Armenian: ստերջ (sterǰ, “sterile, barren”), ստերդ (sterd), ըստերջ (əsterǰ)
  - Armenian: ստերջ (sterǰ)
- Greek: στεῖρα (steῖra, “infertile”)

References

Pokorny, Julius (1959), “(s)ter-, (s)terə- : (s)trē-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1022
Kroonen, Guus Jann (2009) Consonant and vowel gradation in the Proto-Germanic n-stems (PhD thesis)‎, Leiden: Leiden University, page 156: “*stér-ōn, *str̥-n-ós”
Kroonen, Guus (2013), “sterōn-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 478: “*ster-ōn, *str-n-ós”

[IEW-1] Pokorny, Julius (1959), “(s)ter-, (s)terə- : (s)trē-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1022

[2] Kroonen, Guus Jann (2009) Consonant and vowel gradation in the Proto-Germanic n-stems (PhD thesis)‎, Leiden: Leiden University, page 156: “*stér-ōn, *str̥-n-ós”

[EDPG-3] Kroonen, Guus (2013), “sterōn-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 478: “*ster-ōn, *str-n-ós”