strath

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /stɹæθ/    美 /stɹæθ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A wide, flat river valley. Ireland,Scotland
    — [T]hoſe fair Straths that vvater’d are / VVith Tay and Tvveed’s ſmooth Streams, / VVhich gentily and daintily / Eat dovvn the flovvry Braes; / As greatly and quietly / They vvimple to the Seas.
  2. A piece of flat land beside a body of water. Ireland,Scotland
    — [T]he place is pretty pleasant, close by Forth waterside, att the foot of Craigmor, betwixt which and the watar there is a strath very proper for walking: […]

词形变化

straths plural

词汇关系

相关词
Strathallan Strathclyde Strathcona Strathearn Strathisla Strathmore Strathspey Strathtay

词源

Borrowed from Irish srath and Scottish Gaelic srath (“wide, flat river valley, strath; floor of river valley; river meadow”), both from Old Irish srath (“grass, sward; river valley; floor of river valley; river meadow”), from Proto-Celtic *stratos (“valley”), from Proto-Indo-European *str̥h₃tós (“spread; stretched”, adjective), from *sterh₃- (“to extend, spread, stretch out”). The meaning was likely influenced by a Cumbric/Pictish cognate; compare Welsh ystrad. Doublet of stratus.
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