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Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/sterbʰ-

This Proto-Indo-European entry contains reconstructed words 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

Alternative reconstructions
  • *(s)dʰerHbʰ-

Etymology

According to LIV, the root is an example of Siebs's law, probably from *dʰer- (“to hold, to support”) enlarged by *-bʰ. Alternatively, it could be just an enlargement of *sterh₃- (“to stretch”).

Root

*sterbʰ- [1]

  1. to exert (force, work, treatment)
  2. to become stiff

Derived terms
  • *(s)dʰerbʰ-e-ti (thematic present)
    • Germanic: *sterbaną (“to become stiff”) (see there for further descendants)
    • Germanic: *derbaną (“to perish”) (see there for further descendants)
  • *(s)dʰerbʰ-/*(s)dʰr̥bʰ-ti (aorist)
    • Balto-Slavic:
  • *storbʰ-eye-ti (causative)
    • Balto-Slavic:
      • Slavic: *storbiti
        • Old Church Slavonic: oустрабити (oustrabiti, “to relieve pain, to heal”)
  • *sterbʰ-os[2]

References
  1. Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “(s)dʰerbʰ-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, pages 512
  2. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1402
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