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strath

Pronunciation: /stɹæθ/

The English word “strath” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A wide, flat river valley.
  2. A piece of flat land beside a body of water.

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish srath and Scottish Gaelic srath (“wide, flat river valley, strath; floor of river valley; river meadow”), both from Old Irish srath (“grass, sward; river valley; floor of river valley; river meadow”), from Proto-Celtic *stratos (“valley”), from Proto-Indo-European *str̥h₃tós (“spread; stretched”, adjective), from *sterh₃- (“to extend, spread, stretch out”). The meaning was…

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