Etymology

Cognate with Old Church Slavonic прострѣти ‎(prostrěti) (first singular простьрѫ ‎(prostĭrǫ)), Serbo-Croatian про̀стриjети (first singular про̏стриjе̄м), Slovene prostrẹ́ti (first singular prostrèm), Czech prostříti, etc.

From Proto-Slavic *prosterti (first singular *prostьrǫ), composed of *pro- +‎ *sterti, cognate with Sanskrit स्तृणाति ‎(stṛṇā́ti, “to sprinkle, throw”), स्तृणोति ‎(stṛṇṓti), स्तरति ‎(stárati), Avestan [script needed] ‎(staraiti, “to stretch out”), Latvian stirinât ‎(“to move, shake”), Ancient Greek στόρνῡμι ‎(stórnūmi, “to spread”), στορέννῡμι ‎(storénnūmi), στρώννῡμι ‎(strṓnnūmi), Latin sternō ‎(“to spread out”). Past passive participle *prostьrtъ is an exact cognate of Avestan [script needed] ‎(frastǝrǝta-), and base form *stьrtъ is an exact cognate of Sanskrit स्तृत ‎(stṛtá), Ancient Greek στρωτός ‎(strōtós), Latin strātus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [prəsʲtʲɪˈrʲetʲ]