Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗Of a peacock or other fowl: to stand or walk stiffly, with the tail erect and spread out. · To walk haughtily or proudly with one's head held high. · To walk across or on (a stage or other place) haughtily or proudly. · Often followed by out: to protuberate or stick out due to being full or swollen; to bulge, to swell.
A step or walk done stiffly and with the head held high, often due to haughtiness or pride; affected dignity in walking. · An instrument for adjusting the pleats of a ruff.
The verb is derived from Middle English strouten, struten (“to bulge, swell; to protrude, stick out; to bluster, threaten; to object forcefully; to create a disturbance; to fight; to display one's clothes in a proud or vain manner”) [and other forms], from Old English strūtian (“to project out; stand out stiffly; to exert oneself, struggle”), from Proto-Germanic *strūtōną, *strūtijaną (“to be puffed up, swell”), from Proto-Indo-European *streudʰ- (“rigid, stiff”), from *(s)ter- (“firm; strong; rigid, stiff”). The English word is cognate with Danish strutte (“to bulge, bristle”), Low German strutt (“stiff”), Middle High German striuzen (“to bristle; to ruffle”) (modern German strotzen (“to bristle up”), sträußen (obsolete, except in Alemannic)); and compare Gothic 𐌸𐍂𐌿𐍄𐍃𐍆𐌹𐌻𐌻 (þrutsfill, “leprosy”), Old Norse þrútinn (“swollen”). The noun is derived from the verb. Noun sense 2 (“instrument for adjusting the pleats of a ruff”) appears to be due to a misreading of a 16th-century work which used the word stroout (strouted (“caused (something) to bulge, protrude, or swell; strutted”)).
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- Root classification mention*(s)ter-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionstroutenenm
- Inherited-form mentionstrūtianang · to project out; stand out stiffly; to exert oneself, struggle
- Inherited-form mention*strūtōnągem-pro
- Derivation mention*streudʰ-ine-pro · rigid, stiff
- Cognate mentionstrutteda · to bulge, bristle
- Cognate mentionstruttnds · stiff
- Cognate mentionstriuzengmh · to bristle; to ruffle
- Cognate mentionstrotzende · to bristle up
- Cognate mention𐌸𐍂𐌿𐍄𐍃𐍆𐌹𐌻𐌻got · leprosy
- Cognate mentionþrútinnnon · swollen
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