Where does “stearn” come from?

stearn (Old English) comes from Proto-Germanic staraz, from Proto-Indo-European (s)tern- — starling.

stearn (Old English): some kind of bird

Definitions

  1. some kind of bird

Ancestry of “stearn”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanicstarazstiff
2Proto-Indo-European(s)tern-starling

Words derived from “stearn”

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