The story
- Proto-Slavic · derived from*starьcь“old man”
- Slovene · derived fromstȃrəc
- Lower Sorbian · derived fromstarc
- Upper Sorbian · derived fromstarc
- German · derived fromStarz
- English todayStartz
* As a south German surname, variant of Stertz and German Starz. * As an Americanization of a Germanized Slavic name, from Upper Sorbian starc, Lower Sorbian starc, or Slovene stȃrəc (dialectal stȃrc), all meaning "old man"; ultimately from Proto-Slavic *starьcь (“old man”) * As a dialectal Bavarian surname, from Starz (“tail”) (see Steiß (“tail, coccyx”)) Compare Starck.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.