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Name: Scarlett P.
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Date: 10/24/2004
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How did stars get the name 'stars'?

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Tracing the word 'star'

Middle English sterre, from Old English steorra, similar to Old High German sterno, to the Latin stella, and Greek aster or astron.

---Nathan A. Unterman


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