σταῖς

Ancient Greek

According to Beekes, from the same Proto-Indo-European root of Proto-Slavic *těsto (“dough”), Old Irish táis (“dough”) and Old English þǣsma (“leaven”), with an influence from στέαρ (stéar, “fat”).

σταῖς • (staîs) n (genitive σταιτός); third declension

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ σταῖς tò staîs	τὼ σταῖτε tṑ staîte	τᾰ̀ σταῖτᾰ tà staîta
Genitive	τοῦ σταιτός toû staitós	τοῖν σταιτοῖν toîn staitoîn	τῶν σταιτῶν tôn staitôn
Dative	τῷ σταιτῐ́ tôi staití	τοῖν σταιτοῖν toîn staitoîn	τοῖς σταισῐ́ / σταισῐ́ν toîs staisí(n)
Accusative	τὸ σταῖς tò staîs	τὼ σταῖτε tṑ staîte	τᾰ̀ σταῖτᾰ tà staîta
Vocative	σταῖς staîs	σταῖτε staîte	σταῖτᾰ staîta
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ts.

“σταῖς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
σταῖς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

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