strem

== Middle English == === Alternative forms === streme, streem, streeme stræm (Early Middle English) === Etymology === Inherited from Old English strēam, from Proto-West Germanic *straum, from Proto-Germanic *straumaz. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /strɛ̝ːm/ Rhymes: -ɛːm === Noun === strem (plural stremes) A stream or river; a flowing path of water: A current; the flow of a stream. A river's course; the path of a river. A waterbody; an accumulation of water: A sea; a large, continuous body of water. (law) Maritime territory or possessions. A flow or issuing of liquid (especially water) A beam or ray, especially of light. (rare) A standard; a flag indicating nationality. ==== Usage notes ==== This word is not found in bynames recorded in the subsidy rolls of Northern England from 1290-1350, is only found in Yorkshire and Lancashire in the Survey of English Dialects (suggesting that it has spread from more southerly dialects), and is relatively rare in literary Northern Middle English, suggesting that it is not native to Northern Middle English (the usual words for "stream" were probably bek, brok, or in County Durham and Northumberland, burne). ==== Derived terms ==== stremen stremere ==== Descendants ==== English: stream Scots: stream, strem, streme, streim, streym Yola: streem ==== References ==== “strēm, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 27 November 2018. Kristensson, Gillis (1979), “A Piece of Middle English Word Geography”, in English Studies, volume 60, number 3, Routledge, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 256-257.