straat

Meaning

  1. (feminine) street, paved way
  2. (feminine) channel, strait

Frequency

A2
Gender
♀️ Feminine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/straːt/
Etymology

From Middle Dutch strâte, from Old Dutch strāta, from Proto-West Germanic *strātu (“street”), from Latin strāta, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- (“to stretch out, extend, spread”). The sense “strait” is a phono-semantic matching of Middle English streit, from Old French estreit, from Latin strictus. Compare German Straße.

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