Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/strōd

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.

Unknown. Suggested to be from Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- (“to spread; strew”), compare Sanskrit प्रस्तर (prastara, “plain”).^[1]

*strōd n or m or f

1. swamp, marsh

   Synonyms: *fani, *sīk, *sump

2. marshland

• *strōþ, *strōþʀ (Anglo-Frisian)
• *strōdi (Continental)

• The gender and noun-type is uncertain: Old English shows a neuter a-stem with possible relics of a z-stem (due to Middle English strother); while Old High German has a feminine i-stem, possibly from an original consonant-stem.

• Old English: strōd, strōþ n
  • Middle English: strothe
    • English: Strood (placename)
  • ⇒ Old English: *strōdor, *strōþor
    • Middle English: strother, struther
      • English: Strother, Strothers (surname)
• Old Saxon: *strōd
  • Middle Low German: strôt m or f
    • Low German: Strod (Westphalian)
• Old Dutch: *strōd, *struoda f
  • Middle Dutch: stroede, stroet
    • Dutch: stroet, Stroe (placename)
  • → Latin: strude (attested in Latin texts)
• Old High German: struot f
  • Middle High German: struot
    • German: Struth, Strut (archaic)