Vesta
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wiktionary
From Middle English Vesta, from Latin Vesta, related to Ancient Greek ἑστία(hestía, “to dwell”) and Ἑστία(Hestía, “Hestia”), all from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes-; see also Old High German and Old English wesan(“to be”), Gothic wisan( wisan), Sanskrit वसति(vasati, “abide dwell”).
Vesta itself came to mean chaste, pure, or virgin, based from this goddess.
etymonline
Vesta
Roman goddess of hearth and home, late 14c., corresponding to, and perhaps cognate with, Greek Hestia, from hestia "hearth," from PIE root *wes- (3) "to dwell, stay" (source also of Sanskrit vasati "stays, dwells," Gothic wisan, Old English, Old High German wesan "to be"). As the name of a planetoid from 1807 (Olbers).
