straumr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *straumaz, from Proto-Indo-European *srowmos, from *srew- (“to flow”). Compare Old English strēam (English stream), Old Frisian strām (West Frisian stream), Old Saxon strōm (Low German Stroom), Dutch stroom, Old High German stroum, strōm (German Strom (“a stream, a current”)).

Noun

straumr m

1. a stream, a current, a race, a river
2. (nautical, of the sea) the tide

Declension

  Declension of straumr (strong a-stem)

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	straumr	straumrinn	straumar	straumarnir
accusative	straum	strauminn	strauma	straumana
dative	straumi	strauminum	straumum	straumunum
genitive	straums	straumsins	strauma	straumanna

Derived terms

• brjóta straum fyrir (to break the stream for one, to bear the brunt)
• stórstraumr (a spring-tide)
• smástraumr (a neap-tide)

Descendants

• Icelandic: straumur
• Faroese: streymur
• Norwegian Nynorsk: straum
• Norwegian: (dialectal) strom (cf. flom < flaumr), strøym, strem
• Old Swedish: strømber
  • Swedish: ström
• Danish: strøm
  • Norwegian Bokmål: strøm

References

• “straumr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press