Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/strātu

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin (via) strāta (“paved road”).

Noun

*strātu f

1. street, paved road

Inflection

Descendants

• Old English: strǣt, strēt
  • Middle English: strete, stræt, strate, street, streete, stret
    • English: street
    • Scots: street, streit, stret
    • → Breton: straed
    • → Cornish: stret
    • → Welsh: stryd
  • → Old Irish: sráit (see there for further descendants)
  • → Old Norse: stræti (see there for further descendants)
• Old Frisian: strēte
  • North Frisian:

    Föhr-Amrum: struat

    Mooring: stroote

  • Saterland Frisian: Sträite
  • West Frisian: strjitte
• Old Saxon: strāta
  • Middle Low German: strâte
    • German Low German: Straat, Stroot
• Old Dutch: strāta
  • Middle Dutch: strâte
    • Dutch: straat (see there for further descendants)
    • Limburgish: sjtraot, straot
• Old High German: strāza
  • Middle High German: strāze
    • Alemannic German:

      Swabian: Schdrôs

    • Bavarian: Stråßn, Strossn

      Apeltonerisch: Streoss

      Mòcheno: stros

      Upper Bavarian: Straß

    • Central Franconian: Stroß

      Eifel: Strooß

      Hunsrik: Stros

      Luxembourgish: Strooss

    • German: Straße
    • Rhine Franconian: Schdrooß
    • Vilamovian: śtrös
    • Yiddish: שטראָז (shtroz)

References