Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/stirniju

This Proto-West Germanic 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-West Germanic

Etymology

Uncertain; possibly from:

Proto-Germanic *stirnijō, from Proto-Indo-European *ster(h₃)-no-m, from *sterh₃- (“to be broad, spread out”), cognate with Ancient Greek στέρνον (stérnon, “breast, chest”);^[1]^[2]
or metathesized from *striniju, from Proto-Germanic *strinijō, from Proto-Indo-European *sren-yeh₂, from *sren- (“side”), cognate with Latin frōns (“forehead”), Proto-Iranian *rā́nah (“side; hip”), Proto-Balto-Slavic *srḗˀnas (“hip”), and related to Old Norse strind (“side”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Noun

*stirniju f

forehead
Synonyms: *anþi, *þinnu

Inflection

ō-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*stirniju
Genitive	*stirnijā
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*stirniju	*stirnijō
Accusative	*stirnijā	*stirnijā
Genitive	*stirnijā	*stirnijō
Dative	*stirnijē	stirnijōm, stirnijum
Instrumental	*stirniju	stirnijōm, stirnijum

Descendants

Old English: steorn
Old Frisian: *stirne
- Saterland Frisian: Stierne
Old Saxon: *stirna
- Middle Low German: sterne, stērne
  - German Low German:
    Ravensbergisch-Lippisch: Stīrne
    
    Westmünsterländisch: Steerne, Sterne
Old Dutch: *stirna
- Middle Dutch: sternne, stern
  - Dutch: sterre, ster (dialectal)
Old High German: stirna
- Middle High German: stirne
  - German: Stirn
  - Luxembourgish: Stier
  - Yiddish: שטערן (shtern)

References

^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Stirn”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 704
^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “στερνόν”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1401

[EWddS-1] Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Stirn”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 704

[2] Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “στερνόν”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1401

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