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stegosaur, tile, thatch, thatch, deck, deck, toga, detective, thug

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• Proto-Indo-European *steg- *teg- to cover

  • Proto-Indo-European *steg- *teg- pole, stick, beam ^[4]

    • Proto-Indo-European *stogeh₂

      • Germanic *stakô stake

        • East Germanic

          • Gothic *staka

            • Western Romance *staca stake

              • Old French estache stake, strap
              • Spanish estaca stake, tent peg
        • North Germanic

          • Old Norse staki stake, rod

            • Danish stage
            • Icelandic staki
        • West Germanic

          • Old English staca stake

            • English stake
          • Frankish *stakō

            • Dutch staak
            • Old French estaie
    • Proto-Indo-European *stogós *togós

      • Germanic *stakkaz a barn, a rick, a haystack

        • North Germanic

          • Old Norse stakkr barn, haystack, pile

            • Danish stak stack
            • Icelandic stakkur stack
            • English stack
    • Proto-Indo-European *tegdʰlom

      • Italic *texlom

        • Latin tēlum spear, missile, javelin
  • Proto-Indo-European *stégeti *tégeti primary verb

    • Balto-Slavic

      • Baltic

        • East Baltic

          • Lithuanian stíegti to roof, to thatch
    • Hellenic

      • Classical Greek στέγω stégō I cover, I wrap, I make watertight

        • Classical Greek στέγη stégē roof, cover, shelter, room, house

          • Greek στέγη stégi roof, house
        • Classical Greek στεγνός stegnós watertight, waterproof, constipated

          • Greek στεγνός stegnós dry, dull
        • Classical Greek στεγανός steganós ^[1]

          • Latin steganographia steganography ^[1]

            • English steganography
    • Indo-Iranian *stʰágati

      • Indo-Aryan *stʰágati

        • Sanskrit 𑀲𑁆𑀣𑀕𑀢𑀺 sthágati to cover, to conceal
    • Italic *tegezi

      • Latin tegere to cover, to clothe, to protect

        • Latin integere to cover, to protect

          • Latin integumentum covering, guard, shield

            • English integument
        • Latin detegere to uncover, to take off, to reveal

          • Albanian dëftoj I show
          • Latin dētēctus uncovered, revealed

            • English detect

              • English detective
            • French détecter to detect

              • Dutch detecteren to detect
            • Spanish detectar
        • Latin protegere to cover, to protect, to defend lit. "cover forward"

          • Central Romance

            • Italian proteggere to shield, to protect
          • French protéger to protect

            • French protégé / protégée protected

              • English protégé
          • Latin prōtēctus

            • English protect
        • Latin tēgula roof tile

          • Central Romance

            • Dalmatian tacla baking sheet
            • Italian teglia baking sheet, wide-brimmed hat
            • Italian tegola roof tile
          • Eastern Romance

            • Albanian tjegull shingle, tile
            • Serbo-Croatian тегла / tegla jar
            • Hungarian tégla brick

              • Hungarian téglalap rectangle lit. "brick surface"
              • Turkish tuğla brick
          • Western Romance

            • Old French tiule tile

              • Middle French

                • French tuile tile, tuile (thin cookie)

                  • English tuile
            • Spanish teja roof tile
          • Germanic *tigulǭ tile, brick

            • North Germanic

              • Old Norse tigl

                • Old East Norse

                  • Danish tegl
                  • Swedish tegel brick

                    • Finnish tiili brick, tile
                • Old West Norse

                  • Icelandic tigl tile, brick
            • West Germanic *tigulā

              • Old English tiġele

                • Middle English tiȝel / tile / tyle

                  • English tile
              • Frankish

                • Dutch tegel tile
                • Dutch tichel roof tile, brick, flagstone
              • Old High German ziagala / ziagal

                • Middle High German

                  • German Ziegel brick, roof tile

                    • Serbo-Croatian цигла / cigla brick
                  • Polish cegła brick

                    • Ukrainian цегла cehla brick
          • Latin tegumentum cover, covering, shell, armor, husk

            • English tegument
  • Proto-Indo-European *stogéy-eti causative verb

    • Indo-Iranian *stʰagáyati

      • Indo-Aryan *stʰagáyati

        • Sanskrit 𑀲𑁆𑀣𑀕𑀬𑀢𑀺 sthagáyati to make hidden, to make invisible
      • Iranian

        • Scythian

          • Saka

            • Khotani ttajsera pass over ^[2]
  • Proto-Indo-European *stégos *tégos covered

    • Celtic *tegos house

      • Celtic *kom-tegenos shared, held in common lit. "together-housed"

        • Old Irish coitchen common, mutual, shared

          • Irish coiteann common, general, popular
      • Brythonic *tɨɣ

        • Welsh tŷ house ^[3]

          • Welsh popty bakery, oven lit. "bake-house" with -tŷ
          • Welsh ysbyty hospital
          • Welsh bwyty restaurant lit. "food-house"
          • Welsh tylwyth family, household lit. "house-people"

            • Welsh Tylwyth Teg fair(y) folk
      • Old Irish tech

        • Irish teach house

          • Irish Baile an Tí Mhóir place name: Town of the Big House

            • English Baltimore
      • Celtic *tego-slowgos household lit. "house-troop"

        • Brythonic

          • Welsh teulu family
        • Old Irish teglach

          • Irish teaghlach immediate family, household
    • Hellenic *stégos *tégos

      • Classical Greek στέγος stégos roof, house, grave, brothel

        • Translingual Stegosaurus a taxnomic genus of ornithischian dinosaur lit. "roof-reptile", for the plates on its back

          • Translingual Stegosauria the Stegosaurs, a taxonomic suborder of ornithiscian dinosaurs
          • English stegosaur
      • Classical Greek τέγος tégos roof, cover, covered hall
    • Indo-Iranian *stʰagas covered, concealed

      • Indo-Aryan

        • Sanskrit 𑀲𑁆𑀣𑀕 sthaga dishonest, fraudulent

          • Maharashtri

            • Marathi ठक ṭhak thief, swindler
          • Sauraseni

            • Hindustani

              • Hindi ठग ṭhag swindler, fraud, robber
              • English thug
  • Proto-Indo-European *stǝgtos *tǝgtos covered

    • Indo-Iranian

      • Iranian *taxta-

        • Scythian

          • Saka

            • Khotani tti dwelling, nest ^[2]
        • Western Iranian

          • Old Persian *taxt throne

            • Persian تخت taxt throne, capital, seat, sofa, bed

              • Arabic تَخْت taḵt bed, couch, bench, capital, platform, orchestra
              • Malay takhta throne
              • Ottoman Turkish تخت taht throne, sofa, stage

                • Turkish taht throne
                • Armenian թախտ tʿaxt plank-bed, ottoman, sofa
                • Serbo-Croatian тахт / taht throne
            • Old Armenian տախտ taxt throne, bed, couch

              • Armenian տախտ taxt couch, sofa
            • Georgian ტახტი ṭaxṭi ottoman, bench, throne, royal residence
            • Kurdish text throne, bed, wood
  • Proto-Indo-European *stogeh₂ *togeh₂

    • Italic

      • Latin toga toga, garment, roof

        • English toga
  • Proto-Indo-European *stogós *togós coverer agentive

    • Balto-Slavic

      • Baltic

        • East Baltic

          • Lithuanian stogas roof
        • West Baltic

          • Old Prussian stogis roof
    • Celtic *togos roof

      • Brythonic *toɣ

        • Welsh to roof
    • Germanic *þaką roof, cover

      • North Germanic

        • Old Norse þak thatch, roof

          • Danish tag roof
          • Icelandic þak roof
        • Northern Sámi dáhkki roof, ceiling, hearth
      • West Germanic *þak

        • Old English þæc roof, thatch

          • Middle English

            • English thatch
            • English Thatch
            • English Teach
          • Scots thack / thak thatch, roofing material, roof
        • Frankish *thak

          • Middle Dutch

            • Dutch dak roof
        • Old High German dah

          • Middle High German

            • German Dach roof

              • German Dachdecker roofer, tiler, thatcher
          • Yiddish דאַך dakh roof
          • Polish dach roof, apartment

            • Polish dachowiec feral cat lit. "roofer"
            • Ukrainian дах dax roof
      • Germanic *þakjaną to cover, to roof

        • North Germanic

          • Old Norse þekja to cover, to thatch

            • Old East Norse

              • Danish tække
            • Old West Norse

              • Icelandic þekja to cover, to roof, to thatch
        • West Germanic

          • Old English þeċċan to cover, to thatch

            • Middle English

              • English thatch
          • Frankish *thecken

            • Middle Dutch

              • Dutch dekken to cover, to set (a table)
              • English deck verb, as in "deck the halls", "deck out"
            • Frankish *thecka covering

              • Middle Dutch

                • English deck
                • German Deck deck (of a ship)
          • Old High German decchen to cover

            • Middle High German

              • German decken to cover, to set (a table)

                • German Dachdecker roofer, tiler, thatcher
            • Old High German decchī covering

              • Middle High German

                • German Decke covering, ceiling, roof

                  • German Bettdecke duvet, quilt, bedspread

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Collected English words

Baltimore, stake, stack, steganography, detect, detective, integument, protégé, protect, tuile, tile, tegument, Stegosaurus, Stegosauria, stegosaur, thug, toga, thatch, Thatch, Teach, thatch, deck, deck

Footnotes

1. ^

   I'm not sure what—if anything—the difference between Greek στεγνός stegnós and στεγανός steganós is. There's authors that use both, so it's not a dialect difference, but they seem to be interchangeable.

   The word steganography is first recorded in, and apparently coined for, Johannes Trithemius's 1499 book, _Steganographia_. _Steganographia_ which was a steganographical tex: it was made to look like an occult book on communicating with spirits, but was actually a book about cryptography and steganography.

2. ^

   Khotani ttajsera: "pass over, overwhelm" and tti: "nest" are probably from this root, but Khotani derivation is way above my pay grade, these are just guesses of where they go in the graph. There's also a set of Khotani words with "head" related meanings that may be connected: ttādai: "forehead", ttomau: "top", ttiiva: "crown", ttīna: "bridle".

3. ^

   We saw Welsh tŷ before, when Latin hospitium was borrowed into Welsh to mean "hospital", but was egg-corned in Welsh to end with tŷ: "house", parallel to bwyty: "restaurant".

4. ^

   While *(s)teg- about covering and roofs and *(s)teg- about poles and beams are usually considered two different roots, the concept of "pole, stick, beam" seems clearly related to the concept of a roof. On the other hand "pole, stick, beam" is also related to the idea of "pierce, stab" usually assigned to *steyg- (whence, "stick", "stitch", "etiquette").