Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/stábas

This Proto-Balto-Slavic 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-Balto-Slavic

Etymology

O-grade nominal derivative from Proto-Indo-European *stebʰ- (“to stay still”).

Cognate with Proto-Germanic *stabaz (“staff”) (see there for further descendants) and akin to Sanskrit स्तम्भ (stambha, “pillar”).

Noun

*stábas m

pillar, post

Declension

Declension of *stábas (o-stem, fixed accent)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*stábas	*stábōˀ	*stábai⁽ˀ⁾
accusative	*stában	*stábōˀ	*stábō⁽ˀ⁾ns
genitive	*stábā	*stábāu⁽ˀ⁾	*stábōn
locative	*stábai	*stábāu⁽ˀ⁾	*stábaišu
dative	*stábōi	*stábamā⁽ˀ⁾	*stábamas
instrumental	*stábōˀ	*stábamāˀ	*stábōis
vocative	*stábe	*stábōˀ	*stábai⁽ˀ⁾

Derived terms

*stabī́ˀtei (“to halt”)
*stábaras (“halter, post”)

See also

*stubúras (“stalk”) (within Slavic, overlapping with descendants of *stábaras)
*stembtei (“to stem”) (possibly related via a nasal infix)

Descendants

East Baltic:^[1]
- Latvian: stabs
- Lithuanian: stãbas (both stress paradigms 2 and 4 are attested)
West Baltic:
- Old Prussian: stabis (“rock, cliff”) (i-stem)

References

^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “stabs”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca [Latvian Etymological Dictionary]‎^[1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN, page 915

Further reading

“stabas”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
Snoj, Marko (2016), “steber”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si