Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/sterh₃-

Extension of *ster- (“to spread”).

*sterh₃- (perfective)

1. to spread, extend, stretch out

• *strew-
• *str̥h₃-g-
  • Italic:
    • Latin: strāgēs
    • Latin: strāgulus

• *str̥-né-h₃-ti ~ *str̥-n-h₃-énti (nasal-infix present)
  • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *str̥náHti (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Italic: *sternō
    • Latin: sternō
• *str̥h₃-néw-ti ~ *str̥h₃-n̥w-énti (nu-present)
  • Proto-Hellenic: *stórnūmi
    • Ancient Greek: στόρνῡμι (stórnūmi)
• *str̥h₃-tó-s
• *stérh₃-mn̥ ~ *str̥h₃-mén-s (“that which is strewn/spread; bedding”)
  • ⇒ *str̥h₃-m̥n-eh₂
    • Proto-Hellenic: *strōmnā́
      • Ancient Greek: στρωμνή (strōmnḗ)
  • Proto-Hellenic: *strṓmə
    • Ancient Greek: στρῶμα (strôma) (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *stárHma
    • Proto-Indo-Aryan: *stárHma
      • Sanskrit: स्तरिमन् (starimán)
  • Proto-Italic: *strōmen
    • Latin: strāmen
• *storh₃-o-
  • Proto-Italic:
    • Latin: torus, storea (see there for further descendants)

Unsorted formations

• Proto-Albanian: *śt(a)rē-
  • Albanian: shtroj
• Proto-Albanian: *strinja
  • Albanian: shtrij
• Proto-Balto-Slavic:
  • Proto-Slavic: *stornà (“side; land”) (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Balto-Slavic:
  • Proto-Slavic: *sterti (see there for further descendants)
    • ⇒ Proto-Slavic: *prosterti (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Celtic: *starnati (“to strew, broaden”)
• Proto-Hellenic:
  • Ancient Greek: στέρνον (stérnon)
  • Ancient Greek: στορέννῡμι (storénnūmi), στρώννῡμι (strṓnnūmi) (byforms of στόρνῡμι (stórnūmi))
• >? Proto-Italic:
  • Latin: stirps

• Julius Pokorny (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, in 3 vols, Bern, München: Francke Verlag
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN