Where does “streight” come from?
streight (Middle English) comes from Middle English strecchen, from Old English streċċan, from Proto-West Germanic strakkjan, from Proto-Indo-European (s)treg- — rigid, stiff; to be stiff, rigid, strong.
streight (Middle English): straight; direct
Definitions
- straight; direct
Ancestry of “streight”, step by step
Words derived from “streight”
- straight
- straightforward
- straighten
- straightway
- straightforwardly
- straightforwardness
- straightedge
- straightener
- straightish
- nonstraight
- restraighten
- unstraight
- straightforth
- straightface
- unstraightforward
- unstraightforwardness
- straightwise
- straighteneth
- unstraighten
- antistraight
- straighty
- straighthorn
- enstraighten
- straightsplain