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straat

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Afrikaans straat. Doublet of street.

Noun

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straat (plural straate or straaten)

  1. (South Africa) A valley between dunes.
    • 1908, Great Britain Parliament House of Commons, “Colonial Reports”, in Sessional Papers:
      The "straate" are generally level and have a fairly hard surface often broken by protruding boulders of limestone.
    • 1919, South Africa Dept. of Lands, Report of the Department of Lands, page 17:
      Dune veld consists for the most part of rolling sand hills with wide or narrow straaten running in between the rows of sand hills.

Afrikaans

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Etymology

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From Dutch straat, from Middle Dutch strate, from Old Dutch strāta, from Proto-West Germanic *strātu (“street”), from Latin strāta.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /strɑːt/
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Noun

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straat (plural strate)

  1. street, road

Descendants

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  • → English: straat
  • → Swazi: sitaladi
  • → Xhosa: isitrato, isitalato

Dutch

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Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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From Middle Dutch strâte, from Old Dutch strāta, from Proto-West Germanic *strātu (“street”), from Latin strāta, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- (“to stretch out, extend, spread”).

The sense “strait” is a phono-semantic matching of Middle English streit, from Old French estreit, from Latin strictus. Compare German Straße.

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Noun

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straat f (plural straten, diminutive straatje n)

  1. street, paved way
  2. (geography) channel, strait
    Straat Yucatan — the Yucatán Channel or Straits of Yucatán
    Straat (van) Malakka — Strait of Malacca

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