staar: the verb for ’stand’, just as the verb for ’go’ gaa(r) defies a well-known exceptionless sound law and mysteriously retains the vowel /a:/ pro expected <å>. This coincides with a strange #Proto-#Germanic history of these two verbs, as in German gehen and stehen.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331197597_GA-_'GO'_STA-_'STAND'_IN_PGMC_IN_DIALECTAL_EASTERN_SCANDINAVIAN