streuen

See also: Streuen

German

Etymology

From Middle High German ströuwen, Old High German strewen, from Proto-West Germanic *strauwjan.

Cognate with Old Saxon strewian, Old English streowian, Dutch strooien, English strew, Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐍂𐌰𐌿𐌾𐌰𐌽 (straujan).[1]

Pronunciation
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Verb

streuen (weak, third-person singular present streut, past tense streute, past participle gestreut, auxiliary haben)

  1. to strew, to scatter, to sprinkle
  2. to spread

Conjugation

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Derived terms

References
  1. Friedrich Kluge (1883), “Streu”, in , John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

Further reading
  • “streuen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “streuen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • “streuen” in Duden online
  • “streuen” in OpenThesaurus.de
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