streuen

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German

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Etymology

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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

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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

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References

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

Further reading

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