sreath

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• sread
• streath

Etymology

From Old Irish sreth, verbal noun of sernaid.

Noun

sreath m or f (genitive singular sreatha, plural sreathan)

1. row, line
2. lane
3. sequence, series
4. queue
5. layer, tier
6. (military) front

Derived terms

• an sreath a chèile, sreath chèile (“in a row, successively”)
• dà-shreathach (“two-tier”)
• eadar-shreathach, eadar-shreathte (“interline”)
• sreath dhealbhan-èibhinn (“comic strip”)
• stùc-shread (“balustrade”)