Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/stábas

This Proto-Balto-Slavic 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-Balto-Slavic

Etymology

O-grade nominal derivative from Proto-Indo-European *stebʰ- (“to stay still”).

Cognate with Proto-Germanic *stabaz (“staff”) (see there for further descendants) and akin to Sanskrit स्तम्भ (stambha, “pillar”).

Noun

*stábas m

  1. pillar, post

Declension

Declension of *stábas (o-stem, fixed accent)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative *stábas *stábōˀ *stábai(ˀ)
Accusative *stában *stábōˀ *stábō(ˀ)ns
Genitive *stábā *stábāu(ˀ) *stábōn
Locative *stábai *stábāu(ˀ) *stábaišu
Dative *stábōi *stábamā(ˀ) *stábamas
Instrumental *stábōˀ *stábamāˀ *stábōis
Vocative *stábe *stábōˀ *stábai(ˀ)

Derived terms

  • *stabī́ˀtei (“to halt”)
  • *stábaras (“halter, post”)

See also

  • *stubúras (“stalk”) (within Slavic, overlapping with descendants of *stábaras)
  • *stembtei (“to stem”) (possibly related via a nasal infix)

Descendants

  • East Baltic:[1]
    • Latvian: stabs
    • Lithuanian: stãbas (both stress paradigms 2 and 4 are attested)
  • West Baltic:
    • Old Prussian: stabis (“rock, cliff”) (i-stem)

References

  1. ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “stabs”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca [Latvian Etymological Dictionary]‎[1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN, page 915

Further reading

  • “stabas”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
  • Snoj, Marko (2016) “steber”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si
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