stro

From Middle Dutch strô, from Old Dutch *strō, from Proto-West Germanic *strau, from Proto-Germanic *strawą.

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stro n (uncountable, diminutive strootje n)

1. straw

• rost, rots, tros

• stroe
• stra, straa, stray (Northern)

Borrowed from Old Norse strá, from Proto-Germanic *strawą. Doublet of straw.

• IPA^(key): /strɔ̝ː/
• IPA^(key): /straː/ (Northern)

stro (uncountable) (chiefly Northern)

1. Straw; the plant material remaining after threshing.
2. (rare) A stalk; a piece of straw.
3. (rare, figurative) Anything trifling or worthless.

• stroberie

• English: streea (dialectal)
• Middle Scots: stra
  • Scots: strae

• “strau, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 19 July 2018.

From Proto-West Germanic *strau, see also Old English strēaw, Old Norse strá.

strō n

1. straw

• Middle High German: strō
  • German: Stroh
  • Luxembourgish: Stréi
  • Vilamovian: śtruf
  • Yiddish: שטרוי (shtroy)