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streal

/ˈstɹiːl/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
stre-al
IPA
/ˈstɹiːl/
6
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Beam, ray (e.g. of light).

noun

An arrow.

noun

Anything thrown or cast; a missile.

British usage

noun

The pupil of the eye.

British usage

Example Sentences

Etymology

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.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: strele, strǣl, *strālu, *strēl-

Usage

Inflected Forms

streals (plural) strale (alternative, dialectal) streale (alternative, obsolete)

Frequently Paired Words

streel

Homonyms

streel

Rhymes With

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Questions

How do you pronounce streal?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˈstɹiːl/.
What does streal mean?
Beam, ray (e.g. of light).
Where does streal come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

How to pronounce streal

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