Reconstruction:Tocharian B/stāyä
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Tocharian B[edit]
Reconstruction[edit]
Only attested in enestai (“in secret”).
Etymology[edit]
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teh₂y-o-, from *(s)teh₂y- (“to steal”). Cognate with Sanskrit स्तायु (stāyu, “thief”), Old Irish táid (“thief”), Proto-Slavic *tajiti (“to steal”), etc.
Adjective[edit]
*stāyä
Derived terms[edit]
- enestai (“in secret, secretly”)
Further reading[edit]
- Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “stāyä”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 90