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Luxembourgish
Etymology
Possibly inherited from Middle High German strōm, a merger of stroum (“stream”) with unrelated strām (“streak”), respectively from Proto-Germanic *straumaz and *strēmaz. The former is cognate with Dutch stroom, English stream, the latter with dated Dutch straam (“wale”). Alternatively borrowed from German Strom (compare Rheinisches Wörterbuch: “nach dem Nhd.”). If so, not a recent borrowing, however, and thus predating the use in electricity (which is at any rate influenced by German).
Pronunciation
Noun
Stroum m (plural Stréim)
- electricity, electric current
De Stroum ass nees ausgefall.- The power has gone out again.
- current
- géint de Stroum ― against the current
- large river