strenk-, streng-

    strenk-, streng-

    English meaning: stiff, tight

    Deutsche Übersetzung: ‘straff, beengt” under likewise ; ‘strang, zusammendrehen, zusammenziehen”

    Note: (as by ster-g-, stre-g-, see under ster- “ stare “)

    Material: Gk. στραγγός “ twiddled, twisted, rotated, revved, revolved “; through eine schmale aperture tröpfelnd” (στραγγουρία ‘striktur”), στράγξ, -γγός f. “aussickernder, ausgedrũckter drip”, στραγγεύεσθαι ‘sich zusammendrehen, hindurchpressen, hesitate”, στραγγάλη f. ‘strang, rope, loop, noose, snare “, στραγγαλεύω, -ίζω, -όω (from which Lat. strangulō ) “erdroßle”, στρογγύλος (from *στραγγύλος) “ twiddled, twisted, rotated, revved, revolved = round “; M.Ir. srengim “pull, drag”, sreng “rope”, srincne “Nabelschnur” (strengīni̯ ü); Ltv. stringt ‘stramm become; wilt” (“*shrink up “), strangs “gamy, fresh” (Lituanismus); in Germanischen from the root form auf k or gh: O.Ice. strengr “cord, Strang, stripe, schmaler stream” (*strangi-), O.E. streng m. “cord, Strang”, O.H.G. stranc (-g-), Ger. Strang; denominative O.Ice. strengja “festbinden, shut”; with other meaning O.Ice. strangr “violent, strong, stern, hard”, O.E. O.S. strang ds., strenge ‘stern”, M.L.G. strenge, O.H.G. strengi ‘sharp, strong, valiant, stern”, and O.E. strengan “befestigen”, M.H.G. strengen ‘strecken, urge, press, push”, Ger. anstrengen; Nor. strungen “ stiff or beklemmt in stomach”; O.Ice. strangi m. “tree truck”; from the root form auf IE voiced-nonaspirated: O.S. strunker “aufgerichtet, straight”, Nor. Dan. strunk “ds., stout, proud”, Nor. strunken = strungen (see above), M.H.G. strunk “ stalk, stem of a plant “, M.L.G. strunk ‘stengel”, M.H.G. strunken, strunkeln ‘straucheln”, (could also nasalized forms from st(e)reu-g- sein); Ltv. streñkals “ein Stũck verhärteten Auswurfs” (perhaps “ stiff, starr”).

    References: WP. II 650 f., WH. II 605.