The story
- Proto-Indo-European*streyg-
- Proto-Germanic*strikiz
- Proto-West Germanic*striki
- Old Englishstrica
- Middle Englishstreke
- English todaystreak
From Middle English streke, from Old English strica, from Proto-Germanic *strikiz, from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“line”). Related to North Frisian strijck, Old Saxon striki, Middle Low German streke, Low German streek, Danish streg, Swedish streck, Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk strek, Icelandic stryk, strykr, Dutch streek, Afrikaans streek, Old High German strih, German Strich, Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌺𐍃 (striks).
Words from the same roots
Proto-Indo-European*streyg- all →
strikestringentconstrain
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.