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Where does “streaminess” come from?

streaminess (English) comes from English streamy, from English stream, from Middle English streem, from Middle English strem, from Old English strēam, from Proto-West Germanic straum, from Proto-Germanic straumaz, from Proto-Indo-European srowmos — to flow; to guard; to bind, to tie together.

streaminess (English): The quality or state of being streamy

Definitions

  1. The quality or state of being streamy

Ancestry of “streaminess”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishstreamyResembling a stream; streamlike; Full of streams
2EnglishstreamA small river; a large creek; a body of moving...
3Middle EnglishstreemAlternative form of strem
4Middle EnglishstremA waterbody; a region of the world containing...
5Old Englishstrēamcurrent; stream
6Proto-West Germanicstraumstream
7Proto-Germanicstraumazstream, current, river
8Proto-Indo-Europeansrowmosriver
9Proto-Indo-Europeansrew-to flow, stream
10Proto-Indo-Europeanser-to flow; to guard; to bind, to tie together
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