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strauts

Pronunciation: [strāūts]

“strauts” is a Latvian word. Its meaning in English:

noun

  1. creek, brook, small water stream

Etymology

From a 17th-century verb straut (“to flow, to float”) (later replaced by straust (“to flow quickly, to stream”)), from Proto-Indo-European *srew- (“to flow”), with an epenthetic t (whence also straujš (“quick, fast”)). Cognates include Lithuanian sraũtas (“stream, current, flow”) (dialectal straũtas), Sanskrit स्रोत (srótas-, “flow, river”); for the old verb straut, compare also Lithuanian…

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