streon
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.