straumr

== Old Norse == === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *straumaz, from Proto-Indo-European *srowmos, from *srew- (“to flow”). Compare Old English strēam (English stream), Old Frisian strām (West Frisian stream), Old Saxon strōm (Low German Stroom), Dutch stroom, Old High German stroum, strōm (German Strom (“a stream, a current”)). === Noun === straumr m a stream, a current, a race, a river (nautical, of the sea) the tide ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== brjóta straum fyrir (to break the stream for one, to bear the brunt) stórstraumr (a spring-tide) smástraumr (a neap-tide) ==== Descendants ==== Icelandic: straumur Faroese: streymur Norwegian Nynorsk: straum; (dialectal) strom (cf. flom < flaumr), strøym, strem Old Swedish: strømber Swedish: ström Danish: strøm Norwegian Bokmål: strøm === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “straumr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive