Unnumbered source etymology · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗A dried stalk of a cereal plant. · Such dried stalks considered collectively; this bulk matter may be a chief salable product, a by-product, fodder, bedding, or green manure, depending on region and on current market conditions. · A drinking straw. · A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
From Middle English straugh, strauȝ, straw, strawe, strea, streuw, from Old English strēaw, strēow, from Proto-West Germanic *strau, from Proto-Germanic *strawą (“that which is strewn, straw”), from Proto-Indo-European *strew- (“to spread, strew”), from *sterh₃- (“to extend, spread”), from *ster- (“barren, infertile”). Cognates Cognate with Scots strae (“straw”), Yola stre, strew (“straw”), Saterland Frisian Sträi (“straw”), Dutch stro (“straw”), German Stroh (“straw”), Luxembourgish Stréi (“straw”), Vilamovian śtruf, śtruw, štrūv (“straw”), Yiddish שטרוי (shtroy, “straw”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish strå (“straw”), Icelandic strá (“straw”); also Cornish stras (“flat valley; lowland”), Irish and Scottish Gaelic srath (“bottom, holm; river valley”), Welsh ystrad (“valley”), Latin struo (“place one thing on top of another; to build, compose; to devise, ready; to arrange, place; to head up”), Greek στρώμα (stróma, “mattress; layer, sheet”), Albanian shtrij (“to stretch; to lay; to run fast”), shtroj (“to scatter, spread”), Belarusian старана́ (staraná, “side; country”), Bulgarian and Macedonian страна́ (straná, “side; country”), Czech and Slovak strana (“side; page; party”), Kashubian and Polish strona (“side; page; party; country”), Russian сторона́ (storoná, “side; country”), страна́ (straná, “country”), Serbo-Croatian стра́на, strána (“side; page”), Slovene stran (“side; page”), Armenian ստերջ (sterǰ, “barren, sterile”), Persian گستردن (gostardan / gustardan, “to extend, spread”), Sanskrit स्तृ (stṛ), स्तॄ (stṝ, “to scatter, spread”).
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These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionstraughenm
- Inherited-form mentionstrēawang
- Inherited-form mention*straugmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*strawągem-pro · that which is strewn, straw
- Derivation mention*strew-ine-pro · to spread, strew
- Cognate mentionstraesco · straw
- Cognate mentionstreyol
- Cognate mentionSträistq · straw
- Cognate mentionstronl · straw
- Cognate mentionStrohde · straw
- Cognate mentionStréilb · straw
- Cognate mentionśtrufwym
- Cognate mentionשטרויyi · straw
- Cognate mentionstráis · straw
- Cognate mentionstraskw · flat valley; lowland
- Cognate mentionystradcy · valley
- Cognate mentionstruola · place one thing on top of another; to build, compose; to devise, ready; to arrange, place; to head up
- Cognate mentionστρώμαel · mattress; layer, sheet
- Cognate mentionshtrijsq · to stretch; to lay; to run fast
- Cognate mentionстарана́be · side; country
- Cognate mentionсторона́ru · side; country
- Cognate mentionстра́наsh
- Cognate mentionstransl · side; page
- Cognate mentionստերջhy · barren, sterile
- Cognate mentionگستردنfa · to extend, spread
- Cognate mentionस्तृsa
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