Where does “strâlen” come from?

strâlen (Middle Dutch) comes from Middle Dutch strâle, from Old Dutch strāla, from Proto-West Germanic *strālu — arrow.

strâlen (Middle Dutch): to shoot, to penetrate (originally with an arrow)

Definitions

  1. to shoot, to penetrate (originally with an arrow)

Ancestry of “strâlen”, step by step

strâlen traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Middle Dutch strâle

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Dutchstrâlearrow
2Old Dutchstrāla—
3Proto-West Germanic*strāluarrow

via Proto-West Germanic *strâljan

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-West Germanic*strâljan—

Words derived from “strâlen”

Every word from Proto-West Germanic *strālu →Every word from Old Dutch strāla →Every word from Middle Dutch strâle →