streal

(Inglese)

1. An arrow.
2. Anything thrown or cast; a missile.
3. The pupil of the eye.

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/stɹiːl/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: strele

Ereditato da inglese antico: strǣl

Affine frisone occidentale: striel

Affine olandese: straal

Affine tedesco: Strahl

Affine svedese: stråle

Affine islandese: strjál

Affine lituano: strėlė

Affine russo: стрела

In summary

From Middle English strele, stral, from Old English strǣl (“arrow, shaft, dart, missile”), from Proto-West Germanic *strālu (“arrow, ray, beam”), from Proto-Indo-European *strēl- *strēlā- (“arrow, beam”). Cognate with West Frisian striel (“arrow, dart, shaft”), Dutch straal (“radius, ray, beam, stream”), German Strahl (“beam, ray, spurt”), Swedish stråle (“beam, ray”), Icelandic strjál (“arrow”), Lithuanian strėlė (“arrow, dart, jib”), Russian стрела (strela, “arrow, dart”). See also streel.