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German
Etymology
Old High German struot (“swamp, brush, or forest”), Proto-West Germanic *strōd (“marshland”).
Proper noun
Strut f
- An element in many placenames (forests, fields, swamps, streams, villages, etc), also spelled Struth, generally taken to have originally meant 'forest' or 'swamp'.
1869, Johann Georg Lehmann, Die Starkenburger linie, page 184:[…] 7. die Aecker vor der Strut, 8. ein Wingart, dies alles im mannbacher Banne und eben so viel trage, außer ihm, auch sein Bruder Cone Diezmann von jener Fürstin und Gräfin zu Lehen.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
1875, Wilhelm Christoph Friedrich Arnold, Ansiedelungen und wanderungen deutscher Stämme: zumeist nach hessischen Ortsnamen, page 499:So liegt ein Feldort vor der Strut bei Wolferborn im Amt Wächtersbach, während keine Strut mehr da ist. […] So heiszt die Strut zwischen Birstein und Obersotzbach die alte zum Unterschied von der strut zwischen Birstein and Burgbracht: […]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)