Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *stelanąScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_stelaną
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*pstḗnbreast*tsel-to sneakत्सर्
verbStrong class 4to stealto sneakAccording to Kroonen & (Lubotsky 2009), from Proto-Indo-European *tsel- (‘to sneak’) (compare e.g. Sanskrit त्सर् (tsar), Shughni сӗрт (‘to steal, sneak’), Old Armenian սողիմ (sołim, ‘to creep, to steal’)). The supposed metathesis *ts > *st has no exact parallels, but a similar development appears in *spenô (‘nipple’), from Proto-Indo-European *pstḗn (‘breast’). Numerous other etymologies with semantic or phonetic difficulties have been earlier proposed as well.