Re: [tied] Bird names, etc. (was: Re: sea, seal)

Then stream is the example of the intrusive -t-
I guess I was misled on street by Gaelic sraid

--- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> On 2007-08-18 19:10, Rick McCallister wrote:
>
> > re: street, is it related to stream?
>
> No, <stream> is *srou-mo-, from the root *sreu-
> 'flow'. Cf. Gk. rhéuma
> 'current, strem, discharge' < *sreu-mn. and rhóos <
> *srow-o-s (sme
> meaning), Skt. srávati 'flow', etc.
>
> > or from *ster-
>
> It's the deverbal adjective of *sterh3- 'spread out,
> scatter'.
> *str.h3-tó- gave Lat. stra:tus with such meanings as
> 'paved, levelled
> out', fem. (via) stra:ta 'paved road', borrowed into
> early Germanic by
> people familir with Roman "streets". Lat. long /a:/
> was substituted with
> the Germanic reflex of *e:, a fully low vowel in
> common West Germanic,
> hence OHG stra:za, OE stræ:t.
>
> Piotr
>
>

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