streon
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Old English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Germanic *streuną (“heap, treasure, profit, gain”), from Proto-Indo-European *strew- (“to spread, strew”) (cognate with Old Saxon gistriuni, Old High German gistriuni (“gain, property, wealth, business”), Latin strues (“heap”)).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
strēon n
Declension[edit]
Declension of streon (strong a-stem)
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- English: strain
References[edit]
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “strēon”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.