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straumr

straumr

Old Norse

Noun

straumr m

a stream, a current, a race, a river
(nautical, of the sea) the tide

Descendants

Danish: strøm
Faroese: streymur
Icelandic: straumur
Norwegian:
- Bokmål: strøm,
- Nynorsk: straum
Old Swedish: strömber
- Swedish: ström

Derived terms

brjóta straum fyrir (to break the stream for one, to bear the brunt)
stórstraumr (a spring-tide)
smástraumr (a neap-tide)

References

straumr in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press