Words that come from Proto-Indo-European h₂stḗr

400 words across 41 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European h₂stḗr — including star, disaster, stern, disastrous, prognosis, Stella, astronomy, constellation.

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English (276)

Latin (20)

Ancient Greek (17)

French (14)

Italian (13)

Translingual (8)

Dutch (6)

Middle French (3)

Icelandic (3)

Asturian (2)

Catalan (2)

Cornish (2)

Greek (2)

Afrikaans (2)

Armenian (2)

Faroese (2)

Galician (2)

Old High German (1)

Mòcheno (1)

Interlingua (1)

Proto-Italic (1)

Old Occitan (1)

Tarantino (1)

Sanskrit (1)

Esperanto (1)

Ido (1)

Swedish (1)

Old Spanish (1)

Friulian (1)

Breton (1)

Proto-Celtic (1)

Proto-Hellenic (1)

Sicilian (1)

Maltese (1)

Old Persian (1)

Turkish (1)

Proto-Indo-Iranian (1)

Irish (1)

Lithuanian (1)

Basque (1)

Danish (1)