streon

Old English

Alternative forms

• strīon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *streuną (“heap, treasure, profit, gain”), from Proto-Indo-European *strew- (“to spread, strew”) (cognate with Old Saxon gistriuni, Old High German gistriuni (“gain, property, wealth, business”), Latin strues (“heap”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stre͜oːn/

Noun

strēon n

1. gain, acquisition, treasure
2. begetting, generating
3. power

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	strēon	strēon
accusative	strēon	strēon
genitive	strēones	strēona
dative	strēone	strēonum

Derived terms

• ġestrēon
• Strēoneshealh

Descendants

• English: strain

References

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “strēon”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.