stroke
Middle English
/strɑːk/, /strɔːk/
noun
Definitions
- Any striking or hitting motion:
- The force of death; the origin or effect of one's demise.
- (Late ME) The feeling of an intense emotion or mood.
- (Late ME) The process of making a striking or hitting motion.
- A loud sound caused by weather e.g. heavy rain
- The result of a striking or hitting motion; a wound.
- (rare) A jerking or pulsing motion e.g. a heartbeat
Etymology
Inherited from Old English strāc (stroke) inherited from Proto-Germanic *straikaz (stroke).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*straikaz
Gloss
stroke
Concept
Semantic Field
Modern world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- after-stroke English
- afterstroke English
- antistroke English
- backstroke English
- bloodstroke English
- breaststroke English
- brushstroke English
- buttstroke English
- by-stroke English
- counterstroke English
- downstroke English
- forestroke English
- groundstroke English
- handstroke English
- instroke English
- interstroke English
- keystroke English
- masterstroke English
- microstroke English
- midstroke English
- mini-stroke English
- ministroke English
- multistroke English
- outstroke English
- penstroke English
- poststroke English
- prestroke English
- sidestroke English
- strokable English
- stroke English
- strokee English
- strokeless English
- strokelike English
- strokemaker English
- strokeman English
- stroker English
- strokesman English
- strokest English
- stroketh English
- stroketomics English
- sunstroke English
- thumbstroke English
- umstroke English
- understroke English
- upstroke English
- wingstroke English
- stroke Hungarian
- *streyg- Proto-Indo-European
- *straikaz Proto-Germanic
- strāc Old English
- strācian Old English
- strok Middle English
- stroken Middle English
- strokar Ido
- streich Middle High German