streuen

See also: Streuen

German

Etymology

From Middle High German ströuwen, Old High German strewen, from Proto-West Germanic *strauwjan.

Cognate with Old Saxon strewian, Old English streowian, Dutch strooien, English strew, Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐍂𐌰𐌿𐌾𐌰𐌽 (straujan).[1]

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Verb

streuen (weak, third-person singular present streut, past tense streute, past participle gestreut, auxiliary haben)

  1. to strew, to scatter, to sprinkle
  2. to spread

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Streu”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

Further reading

  • streuen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • streuen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • streuen” in Duden online
  • streuen” in OpenThesaurus.de
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