PIE base ‘to spread’.
Other derivatives include instruct, construction, perestroika, obstruction, industry, stratosphere, destroy, strew, straw, and street.
[Pokorny *ster-5, , sterə- : strē-, steru- : streu-, pp. 1029–1031.]
In Integral Relational Logic, structure is a primal concept, essentially synonymous with graph in this context, depicting the relationships between forms or elements, prior to interpretation as a network, which contains further semantic detail.