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streal

  • /ˈstɹiːl/
  • [ˈstɹ̝̊ʷɪi̯l]
  • [ˈst̠ɹ̠̊˔ʷɪi̯l]

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Where it comes from

From Middle English strele, stral, from Old English strǣl (“beam, ray, arrow, shaft, dart, missile”), from Proto-West Germanic *strālu (“arrow, ray, beam”), from Proto-Indo-European *strēl- *strēlā- (“arrow, beam”). Cognate with West Frisian striel (“arrow, dart, shaft”), Dutch straal (“radius, ray, beam, stream”), German Strahl (“beam, ray, spurt”), Swedish stråle (“beam, ray”), Icelandic strjál (“arrow”), Lithuanian strėlė (“arrow, dart, jib”), Russian стрела (strela, “arrow, dart”). See also streel.

noun streals · strale · streale

  1. rare Beam, ray (e.g. of light).
  2. An arrow.
  3. Scotland, UK Anything thrown or cast; a missile. With streals all wounded, with streals was I all wounded.
  4. UK, dialectal The pupil of the eye.

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@misc{streal_2026,
  title = {streal},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/streal},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}