 pedestal or base – reversing the bilabial-fricative, but all about STABILITY. In Polish, stawiac is to stand up or erect; podstaw is a base or foundation.
. Reverse the צ-ב Tsadi-Bhet -- with common shifts of TS to ST, and B to P -- and you can hear how Jacob's ladder was POSTED (stationed) on Earth. (Grounded in This-Worldly action.) Old Italian posta, relay station, gave rise to words like POSTAGE and POSTAL. A free-standing wooden beam is a POST. Occupying armies put up military POSTS. To STOW is to station something, with an easier post-Babel route from our צ-ב Tsadi-Bhet. Just shift bilabials, BH to W. The Tsadi-Bhet sub-root reversed gives English a bilabial-ST verb for POSTING something firmly in place. A POST is FASTENED, held FAST. This is why before military or job POSTS there were words like Old English post (pillar, DOORPOST) and Old French post (post, pillar, beam). There is a Latin postis, post, but the scholars link it to Sanskrit prsti-s, rib. An extra R may have been added via “liquidization.” German Pfosten is used for a doorjamb, stake or GOALPOST.
Finnish has pysty, upright; pystssä, upright; pysttä, to put up, erect; pystyyn, up, upright; pysttää, keep, maintain; pysyvyys, stability, fastness; pysyvä, constant, fast; pysyä, stay, keep, remain.
Arabic istabl, Spanish establo, Portuguese estavel, Rumanian staul and Hungarian istallo infer that STALL as well as STABLE originated in the land of the Arabian horse.
Russian stol, table, makes once suspect that STOOL and TABLE are unstable forms of STABLE from the well-grounded Edenic צ-ב Tsadi-Bhet root. The ב Bhet or B or an older word like STABLE may have dropped out to give Russian an ST-L table and English the shorter but stable STOOL.
Reverse the stable צ-ב Tsadi-Bhet sub-root to get the firm FAST of STEADFAST, FASTEN or FASTNESS. FAST friends have nothing to do with speed or abstinence. Similarly, see VESTED (established) at “STUBBORN.” Hebraists too stubborn to accept 2-letter sub-roots have missed the world of words.
Greek pistis (faithful) is likely a צ-ב Tsadi-Bhet reversal.
Japanese tatsu is “built, established;” tatsu is also “rise, stand up.” As usual, the צ Tsadi/TS is lasting, while the ב Bhet/BH drops. The S seems to drop too, In Japanese stand-upright terms like tate (height), and tateru (build, construct, establish).
German basteln, to rig up, build < ß יצב YaTSahBH, to set up, stand up. (In this inversion, the ב Bhet hardens to B, and the צ Tsadi/TS becomes ST, as usual).
Thousands of reverse synonyms are out there, not seen because of simple Grimm’s Law letter shifts. For example, sturdy, enduring fricative-bilabial words like ESTABLISH, STUB, STUBBLE, STUBBORN, and STIFF are the same theme as the reverse: bilabial-fricative words like FAST (stuck), POST, VESTED, VESTIGE. But only FAST and STIFF reverse the same letters.
More at “STUBBORN.”