master, lord, householder (of a household or estate) · husband (owner and master of a farm) · host (of an occasion or establishment; one who is entertaining guests)
çekim: çoğul isännät · tamlayan isännän
köken: From Proto-Finnic *icäntä. Equivalent to isä (“father”) + -ntä.
master, landlord, householder, manager of owndom, husband (in its archaic sense) · home spirit, protector of property (mythological)
çekim: çoğul стопа́ни
köken: From an earlier стопа́н (stopán) (dialectal) + -ин (-in) (agentive suffix). Formally reflects Proto-Slavic *stopan(in)ъ which yielded Old Church Slavonic стопанъ (stopanŭ), Serbo-Croatian стопан, Macedonian стопан (stopan) and was loaned into Romanian stăpân, but beyond that - of uncertain origin. Proposed etymologies include: * Georgiev, Simeonov: From a Balkan substratum, akin to Albanian…
householder; a married person engaged in family life and worldly duties. · a gentleman; an ordinary family man leading a settled life. · a brahman performing the duties of a householder.
köken: Borrowed from Sanskrit गृहस्थ (gṛhastha). First attested as Old Marathi 𑘐𑘿𑘨𑘲𑘮𑘭𑘿𑘞 (gṛhastha, “householder”).