Word Origin Summary

*stéh₂tis is attested in Proto-Indo-European. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• sztetl

  Polish · derived from

• -staza

  Polish · derived from

• stay

  English · derived from

• estasi

  Catalan · borrowed from

• steid

  Scots · inherited from

• Homöostase

  German · derived from

• Fredrikstad

  Norwegian Bokmål · inherited from

• shtetl

  English · derived from

What You Can Explore

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