Words that come from Proto-Indo-European “(s)tern-”

51 words across 21 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European (s)tern- — including sterling, starling, sterlingly, sterlingness, starlinglike, étourneau, sturnus, storno.

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Finnish (7)

German (7)

English (5)

Middle English (5)

Translingual (4)

Old English (3)

Latin (2)

Italian (2)

Albanian (2)

Dutch (2)

Spanish (2)

French (1)

Esperanto (1)

Occitan (1)

Portuguese (1)

Old French (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Proto-Germanic (1)

Proto-Finnic (1)

Late Latin (1)

Middle High German (1)