stër-

See also: ster, stěr, stêr, Stèr, -ster, and -ster-

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • shtër

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *stara, from Proto-Indo-European *sth₂-ró-s, from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-. Compare Russian ста́рый (stáryj, “old”), Old Church Slavonic старъ (starŭ, “old”), English stour, Lithuanian stóras, Pashto ستر‎ (stër, “large”), Sanskrit स्थिर (sthira). Ultimately a doublet of shtazë through its derivation from the participle *shtan.

according to Meyer, it derives from Latin extra, and a cognate with romanian Romanian stră-. Joseph however disagrees with this link, as it derives from older shtër- compares Albanian stër- with latin tritavis (older form strittauus), and claims it as a descendent of the original Latin stri-, incfluences from greek επι- or italian stra-[1].

Prefix

stër-

  1. grand-
  2. mega-, super-

Derived terms
Albanian terms prefixed with stër-

References
  1. Joseph, B. D. 2009. The etymology of the Albanian stër- prefix. Ohio State university
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