sraoth

From Old Irish sreód (“sneeze”), from Proto-Celtic *fstrew-, from Proto-Indo-European *pster-. Cognate with Breton strevial (“to sneeze”), Cornish striw, Scottish Gaelic sreoth, and obsolete Welsh trew.

sraoth m (genitive singular sraotha, nominative plural sraothanna)

1. sneeze

   Lig sí sraoth. ― She sneezed.

2. snort

• sraothartach

Related to sruth (“stream, river, current”),

sraoth m (genitive singular sraotha, nominative plural sraothanna or sraotha)

1. race, channel

   sraoth muilinn. ― millrace

2. flow

(weak plural)

(strong plural)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “sraoth”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sreód”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language