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

ō-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*strātu
Genitive	*strātā
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*strātu	*strātō
Accusative	*strātā	*strātā
Genitive	*strātā	*strātō
Dative	*strātē	strātōm, strātum
Instrumental	*strātu	strātōm, strātum

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

Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 136: “PWGmc *strātu”

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[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 136: “PWGmc *strātu”