streon

Old English

Alternative forms

strīon

Etymology

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

IPA^(key): /stre͜oːn/

Noun

strēon n

Declension

Declension of streon (strong a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	strēon	strēon
accusative	strēon	strēon
genitive	strēones	strēona
dative	strēone	strēonum

Derived terms

ġestrēon

Descendants

English: strain

References

Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “strēon”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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