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streám

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
streám, es; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§135; §250; §278; §306; §335;
A stream, current, flowing water; in the plural used of the sea in poetry
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  • Streám vel wǽto

    irriguum,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 28, 9.

  • Streám fluens, ii. 149, 68:

    alveus,

    i.
      54, 26.

  • Streám, streúm

    rema, reuma,

      Txts. 92, 855.

  • Streámum, streaumum, streúm

    torrentibus,

      103, 2036.

  • Hí on ðæs streámes brycge ábysgade wǽron . . . Scs Albanus eode tó ðære burnan . . . ðá sóna árúgode se streám

    fluminis ipsius occupabat pontem . . . Sanctus Albanus accessit ad torrentem . . . illico siccato alveo,

      Bd. 1. 7; S. 478, 8-13.

  • Hé wolde ða eá mid sunde oferfaran, ac hiene se streám fordráf,

      Ors. 2, 4; Swt. 72, 30.

  • Ymbútan ðone weall is se mǽsta díc, on ðæm is iernende se ungefóglecesta streám

    fossa extrinsecus late patens, vice amnis circumfluit.

      Swt. 74, 18.

  • Ealle ða gewítaþ swá swá wæteres streám,

      Blickl. Homl. 59, 20.

  • Forðon seó stów on ófre ðæs streámes (

    super ripam fluminis

    ) wæs geseted, wæs his gewuna ðæt hé on ðone stream eode and hine on ðam streáme sencte,
      Bd. 5, 12; S. 631, 18-22.

  • Humbre streámes

    Humbrae fluminis,

      1. 25 ; S. 486, 17.

  • On Trenton streáme

    in fluvio Treenta,

      2, 16; S. 519, 31.

  • Temese streáme

    Tamense fluvio,

      2, 3; S. 504, 16: 2, 14; S. 518, 15.

  • Gehlade áne cuppan fulle forð mid ðam streáme,

      Lchdm. iii. 74, 14.

  • Hát gefec-cean ongeán streáme healfne sester yrnendes wæteres,

      12, l.
    Sing ðis on yrnendum wætere, and wend ðæt heáfod ongeán streám, 70, 8.

  • Ondlang ðæs streámes . . . ondlang ðæs Doferdæles ongeán streám tó Wícforda,

      Cod. Dip, Kmbl. vi. 218, 29.

  • Streámas stódon,

      Cd. Th. 206, 29; Exod. 459.

  • Streámas wundon,

      Beo. Th. 430; B. 212.

  • Wǽgas grundon, streámas styredon,

      Andr. Kmbl. 747; An. 374.

  • Reáde streámas

    the waters of the Red Sea,

      Cd. Th. 196, 23; Ex. 296.

  • Seajte streámas,

      Exon. Th. 206, 2; Ph. 120.

  • Streámas, sealtýþa gelác,

      308, 4; Seef. 34.
Etymology
[O. Frs. strám: O. Sax. stróm: O. H. Ger. stroum, strúm alveus, amnis, torrens: Icel. straumr.]
Similar entries
v. brim-, eá-, ég-, égor-, fífel-, firgen-, fyrn-, lagu-, mere-, sǽ-, wǽg-, wæl-, wæter-, wille-streám.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “streám.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/29121.

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