Cognate Set 2980 – Meaning: stick

IE-CoR reference form:
*staba-
IE-CoR reference language:
Proto-Germanic
Ideophonic:
no
Parallel derivation:
no
Justification:
Lexemes continuing Proto-Germanic *staba- 'staff; letter'. Further connections not fully uncertain, possibly with Lithuanian stãbas 'post', Old Irish sab 'shaft, pole' < *stabʰ-o- or *stobʰ-o-? (cf. Kroonen 2013:471, ALEW 967).
Found in clades:
Germanic
Revised by:
Matthew Scarborough
Found in 1 clade by 2 lexemes.
Language Lexeme Native script Phonetic Phonemic Notes
103   Icelandic stafur ˈstaːvʏr From Old Norse stafr.
102   Old Icelandic stafr stavr stafr
References
  • Hock, Wolfgang and Fecht, Rainer and Feulner, Anna Helene and Hill, Eugen and Wodtko, Dagmar S.: 967
    Lith. stãbas I (4) sm. 'Götzenbild, Götze', Latv. stabs sm. 'Pfosten, Pfahl, Säule, Pfeiler' and Old Prussian stabis E 'Stein'. PIE ?*stobʰ-ó- sm. 'Erstarren'.
  • Kroonen, Guus: 471
    S.v. Proto-Germanic *staba- m. 'staff; letter', cf. also Gothic stabos m.pl. 'letters'. Possibly cognate with OIr. sab m. 'shaft, pole' and Lith. stãbas m. 'post'. < *stabʰ-o- "The correspondence of Celtic a with Baltic a points to original *a rather than *o."