| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
Appendix I Indo-European Roots |
| ENTRY: | ster-2 |
| DEFINITION: | Also ster -. To spread.Derivatives include destroy, industry, straw, street, and stratagem. I. Extended form *streu-. 1. strain2, from Old English str  on, something gained, offspring, from Germanic suffixed form *streu-nam. 2. structure; construct, destroy, instruct, instrument, obstruct, substruction, from Latin struere, to pile up, construct. 3. Zero-grade form *stru-. industry, from Latin industrius, diligent, from Archaic Latin indostruus (endo-, within; see en). 4. bremsstrahlung, from Old High German str la, arrow, lightning bolt, from Germanic *strl .II. O-grade extended form *strou-. 1. Suffixed form *strou-eyo-. a. strew, from Old English str (o)wian, to strew; b. streusel, from Old High German strouwen, strowwen, to sprinkle, strew. Both a and b from Germanic *strawjan. 2. Suffixed form *strow-o-. straw, from Old English straw, straw, from Germanic *strawam, “that which is scattered.”III. O-grade extended form *stroi-. perestroika, from Old Russian stroj  , order.IV. Basic forms *ster-, *ster -. 1. Nasalized form *ster-n--. estray, stratus, stray, street; consternate, prostrate, substratum, from Latin sternere (past participle strtus from zero-grade *st -to-), to stretch, extend. 2. Suffixed form *ster-no-. sternum; sternocleidomastoid, from Greek sternon, breast, breastbone.V. Zero-grade form *st -, *st-. 1. Suffixed form *st-to-. stratagem; stratocracy, from Greek stratos, multitude, army, expedition. 2. Suffixed form *st-to-. strath, from Old Irish srath, a wide river valley, from Celtic *s(t)rato-. 3. Suffixed extended form *st-m . stroma; stromatolite, from Greek strma, mattress, bed. (Pokorny 5. ster- 1029.) |
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