Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/strawjaną

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *strow-éye-ti, a causative from the root *strew- (“to spread, strew”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstrɑw.jɑ.nɑ̃/

Verb

*strawjaną

1. to strew

Inflection

Conjugation of *strawjaną (weak class 1)

	active voice			passive voice
present tense	indicative	subjunctive	imperative	indicative	subjunctive
1st singular	*strawjō	*strawjaų	—	*strawjai	?
2nd singular	*strawisi	*strawjais	*strawi	*strawjasai	*strawjaisau
3rd singular	*strawiþi	*strawjai	*strawjaþau	*strawjaþai	*strawjaiþau
1st dual	*strawjōs	*strawjaiw	—	—	—
2nd dual	*strawjaþiz	*strawjaiþiz	*strawjaþiz	—	—
1st plural	*strawjamaz	*strawjaim	—	*strawjanþai	*strawjainþau
2nd plural	*strawiþ	*strawjaiþ	*strawiþ	*strawjanþai	*strawjainþau
3rd plural	*strawjanþi	*strawjain	*strawjanþau	*strawjanþai	*strawjainþau
past tense	indicative	subjunctive
1st singular	*strawidǭ	*strawidēdį̄
2nd singular	*strawidēz	*strawidēdīz
3rd singular	*strawidē	*strawidēdī
1st dual	*strawidēdū	*strawidēdīw
2nd dual	*strawidēdudiz	*strawidēdīdiz
1st plural	*strawidēdum	*strawidēdīm
2nd plural	*strawidēdud	*strawidēdīd
3rd plural	*strawidēdun	*strawidēdīn
	present	past
participles	*strawjandz	*strawidaz

Derived terms

• *strawīniz

Descendants

• Proto-West Germanic: *strauwjan
  • Old English: strēawian, strēowian, strēwian
    • Middle English: strewen, streuen
      • English: strew, strow, straw (dialectal)
      • Scots: straw
  • Old Frisian: strēwa
    • North Frisian: strijen
    • West Frisian: streauwe
  • Old Saxon: streuwian, strōian
    • Middle Low German: strōen, strōuwen
  • Old Dutch: *strōien
    • Middle Dutch: strôyen
      • Dutch: strooien, strouwen
        • Afrikaans: strooi
        • Negerhollands: strui, strooj
        • → Papiamentu: stroi, strooi
        • → West Frisian: struie
      • Limburgish: struie
  • Old High German: strewen, strouwen
    • Middle High German: streuwen, ströuwen, strouwen
      • Alemannic German: streuwe
      • Central Franconian: streue, streie, strähe, straaie
        • Luxembourgish: streeën
      • German: streuen
• Old Norse: strá, *streyja
  • Icelandic: strá
  • Faroese: stroyggja
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: strå, strøya, strø
  • Old Swedish: strø̄ia, strø̄
    • Swedish: strö
  • Old Danish: strø̄
    • Danish: strø
      • Norwegian Bokmål: strø
  • Elfdalian: sträa
  • Gutnish: stråie
• Gothic: 𐍃𐍄𐍂𐌰𐌿𐌾𐌰𐌽 (straujan)
• → Proto-Finnic: *raivat'ak (see there for further descendants)