styra

Old Swedish

verb

Definitions

to steer, to guide, to direct
to rule, to govern

Etymology

Inherited from Old Norse stýra inherited from Proto-Germanic *stiurijaną (steer, ferry).

Origin

Proto-Germanic

*stiurijaną

Gloss

steer, ferry

Concept

Semantic Field

Modern world

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

Emoji

Timeline

Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms

*stiurijaną Proto-Germanic
stieran Old English
stēoran Old English
steere Middle English
stýra Old Norse
stýra Icelandic
stiuren Old High German
stýra Faroese
stiuren Old Dutch
styra, stȳra Old Swedish
styr Westrobothnian

stȳra