Word Origin Summary

*ster- 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

• streifen

  German · derived from

• strand

  English · derived from

• steril

  Norwegian Nynorsk · derived from

• cholesterolum

  Latin · derived from

• strond

  Faroese · inherited from

• stereo

  English · derived from

• sztereotípia

  Hungarian · derived from

• stiria

  Latin · derived from

What You Can Explore

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• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root