Where does “*star” come from?

*star (Old Dutch) comes from Proto-West Germanic *star, from Proto-Germanic staraz, from Proto-Indo-European (s)tern- — starling.

Ancestry of “*star”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-West Germanic*starstiff
2Proto-Germanicstarazstiff
3Proto-Indo-European(s)tern-starling

Words derived from “*star”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European (s)tern- →Every word from Proto-Germanic staraz →Every word from Proto-West Germanic *star →