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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/stirniju
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]
- 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”). Related to Old Norse strind (“side”).
Noun
*stirniju f
- forehead
- Synonyms: *anþi, *þinnu
Inflection
ō-stem | ||
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Singular | ||
Nominative | *stirniju | |
Genitive | *stirnijā | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *stirniju | *stirnijō |
Accusative | *stirnijā | *stirnijā |
Genitive | *stirnijā | *stirnijō |
Dative | *stirnijē | *stirnijōm |
Instrumental | *stirniju | *stirnijōm |
Descendants
- Old English: steorn
- Old Frisian: *stirne
- Saterland Frisian: Stierne
- Old Saxon: *stirna
- Middle Low German: sterne, stērne
- German Low German:
- Ravensbergisch-Lippisch: Stīrne
- Westmünsterländisch: Steerne, Sterne
- German Low German:
- Middle Low German: sterne, stērne
- Old Dutch: *stirna
- Middle Dutch: sternne, stern
- Dutch: sterre, ster (dialectal)
- Middle Dutch: sternne, stern
- Old High German: stirna
- Middle High German: stirne
- German: Stirn
- Luxembourgish: Stier
- Yiddish: שטערן (shtern)
- Middle High German: stirne
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