strauts

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 iterative verb sravė́ti (“to flow slowly”), Sanskrit स्रवति (srávati, “to flow”), Ancient Greek ῥέω (rhéō, “to flow”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [strāūts]

strauts m (1st declension)

1. creek, brook, small water stream

   kalnu, meža strauts ― mountain, forest stream

   sniegūdens strauts ― snow water stream

   strauts urdz, čalo ― the stream purls, murmurs

   strauts burbuļo ― the stream bubbles

   strautu forele ― brook trout

• (dialectal term) valks

• straume
• straujš
• strāva