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Sta word, adopted as a literary term in the last century), which is wanting in  and . For the early history of  and  the older periods give no further clue, yet  root stū̆, ‘to look fixedly,’ under .  ',, ‘rod, scourge,’ from   stûpe, ‘post to which a criminal is bound and beaten with rods’; hence , ‘to flog, scourge,’ which occurs in  only. Corresponding to  stûpa, ‘public chastisement with the rod.’ Early history obscure.  ', , ‘to prick, stab, engrave,’ from the   stëchen,  stëhhan,  . From this strong verbal root stek, which is preserved in   ( stëkan,  steken,  steka);  , , and . By passing from the i class into the e class this root  originated in an older form stik, pre- stig, which has a variant tig, ‘to be sharp,’ in the non- languages. tij, ‘to be sharp, sharpen’ (tigmá, ‘pointed, sharp’), στίγμα, ‘prick, point,’ from στέζω, ‘to mark with a pointed instrument, prick,’  instîgare, ‘to goad on, incite.’ Whether these are connected further with a prehistoric root stik, stink (see ), is uncertain. —  ,, ‘stick, staff,’ from the  stëcke (stëche),  stëccho (stëhho). Corresponding to sticca,  stick;  perhaps ‘pricker,’ like, allied to  sting. —  ,, ‘to stick, fix, put, place, conceal,’ from  and  stecken, ‘to fasten by sticking, fix firmly,’  ‘to make something stick’; a recent factitive of  (properly *stakjan for *staikjan, from the root stik). From the intransit. meaning of stecken, ‘to remain fast,’ is derived the  ,  , ‘to stick, remain fast, be fixed.’ The  cognates,  stecco, ‘thorn,’ stecca, ‘staff,’  etiquette, ‘ticket’ (on goods, &c.), are based on derivatives of the  root stik, stëk.  ,, ‘path, narrow wooden bridge,’ from the  and  stëc ( stëges), ; allied to ; also dialectically , ,  to , ‘stair.’ —   ,, ‘stirrup,’ from the  stëgreif,  stëgareif. An term, as is shown by the correspondence between  and  stigerâp,  stirrup,  stigreip;  ‘rope, ring for mounting a horse’ (the term,  ‘stirrup,’  to  stijgbeugel, is unknown to  and . See, however, ).  ,, ‘to stand, remain,’ from the  and  stên,  ; besides the root stai, which may be deduced from this verb,  and  stân indicates another root. The form of this root stai (stâ) was extended to stand (staþ), from which most of the dialects form the stem;   standan,  standan,  to stand ( to stay is derived from ;   estaier),  stantan,  (rarely) standen. The stem was, in the  group, formed from the root stand while the  derivatives were chiefly based on the Aryan root stā̆. This recurs (as in the case of, , ) in all the Aryan languages in the same sense. sthâ, ἱ τάναι,  stâre,  stati, ‘to stand.’ ,, ‘to steal,’ from the  stëln,  stëlan; a common. stilan, stela,  stëlan,  to steal (to which stealth is allied),  stelen,  stëlan, ‘to steal.’ The root is confined to, and corresponds only partly to  στερίσκω, ‘to rob’; perhaps the  l instead of the  r is due to  (on account of the frequent combination of  and ). À corresponding to the  κλέπτω, ‘to steal,’ is preserved in  (  hlifan, ‘to steal’). ,, ‘stiff, rigid, pedantic, formal,’ from stîf, ‘stiff, fixed, upright, brave, stately’; probably a  and  word. stijf, stîf ( stiff),  stîfr, ‘fixed, stiff.’ The  root stîf, in these cognates, occurs in the non- languages as stîp;  stîpes. ‘stake, stick,’ stiprùs, ‘strong, firm,’ stìpti, ‘to become stiff.’  also.  ',, ‘path, footway,’ from the  and  stîc ( stîges), ; allied to ', ‘to mount,’ which is based on the   stîgen,  stîgan,. The is common to  in the same sense;   stîgan,  stijgen,  stîgan ( to sty),  steigan. The root stī̆g ( also, ) corresponds to the widely-diffused Aryan root stī̆gh, ‘to step, stride,’ which appears in  (rare) stigh, ‘to step, stride,’  στείχω, ‘to go,’  vestigium, ‘track, trace,’  stignąti, ‘to hasten’; hence the