astare
See also: āstäre
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /əˈstɛɚ/
- Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
- Homophone: Astaire (one pronunciation)
Adverb
astare (not comparable)
- Staring; amazed.
- 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, in Men and Women, volume 1, London: Chapman and Hall, page 140:
- One stiff blind horse, his every bone a-stare, / Stood stupefied,
- 1902, Mary Johnston, chapter 9, in Audrey,, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 125:
- passing the long college all astare with windows
- 1929, Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel, London: Heinemann, Part 2, Chapter 27:
- A flashlight: Hugh Barton and his bride limply astare—frightened;
- 1968, Austin Clarke, chapter 19, in A Penny in the Clouds, Dublin: Moytura Press, published 1990, page 151:
- […] the Man of the House and his wife greeted us, their children astare with wondering eyes.
Latin
Tocharian B
Etymology
From Proto-Tocharian *āstäre, of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs- (“to burn”). Compare Tocharian A āştär.
Derived terms
Further reading
- Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 36-37
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.