Part of speech: verb
Verb type: weak verb (2)
to stare, gaze, look fixedly
Etymology
[Mod E STARE ← Prot-Germ *starēn; Goth -staúrran (in the verb andstaúrran “to look angrily; to scold”); O Sax starron; Dt staren; OHG starēn (Mod G starren); Icel stara “to stare, look fixedly” ← Indo-Europ *ster- “stiff; hard; rigid”; cf Anc Gr στερεός “firm; solid; strong“]
Paradigm
4.2.2. - 2nd class weak verbs
The second class of the weak verbs is marked by the presence of the Prot-Germ suffix *-ō-, preserved in the Anglo-Saxon in the form of short vowel -o- of the past tense suffix: macode (made); lufode (loved), etc.
| II class | infinitive | past tense singular |
| to look (at); to see | lócian, lóciȝan | lócode |
| to love | lufian | lufode |
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