Word Origin Summary

*stísteh₂ti 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

• histone

  English · derived from

• consistent

  English · derived from

• suidh

  Scottish Gaelic · inherited from

• ABC-statene

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• suigh

  Irish · inherited from

• ἵστημι

  Ancient Greek · inherited from

• seas

  Irish · derived from

• तिष्ठति

  Sanskrit · inherited from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root