strong
/stɹɒŋ/ · adj
Meaning
- Capable of producing great physical force.
- Capable of withstanding great physical force.
- Possessing power, might, or strength.
- Determined; unyielding.
- Highly stimulating to the senses.
- Having an offensive or intense odor or flavor.
- Having a high concentration of an essential or active ingredient.
- Having a high alcoholic content.
- Inflecting in a different manner than the one called weak, such as Germanic verbs which change vowels.
- Of a form in which the accent is in the leftmost (first) slot allowed in the relevant paradigm, or reflecting an ancestral Proto-Indo-European form in which this was the case, as opposed to tending to shift to the right.
- In the nominative, accusative or vocative case, regardless of number, or sometimes in the locative singular.
- Typically, of a conjugation which is singular and active; i.e., excluding dual and plural numbers and passive/middle voices.
- In a strong manner.
- A surname.
- A number of places in the United States:
- A minor city in Union County, Arkansas.
- A township in Chase County, Kansas.
- A town in Franklin County, Maine.
- An unincorporated community in Monroe County, Mississippi.
- A census-designated place in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.
- A township and community therein, in Parry Sound District, Ontario, Canada.
Etymology / origin
From Middle English strong, strang, from Old English strang (“strong”), from Proto-West Germanic *strang (“severe, strict, rigorous, strong”), from Proto-Germanic *strangaz (“tight, strict, straight, strong”), from Proto-Indo-European *strengʰ- (“taut, stiff, tight”). Cognate with Scots strang (“strong”), Saterland Frisian strang, West Frisian string (“austere, strict, harsh, severe, stern, stark, tough”), Dutch streng (“strict, severe, tight”), German streng (“strict, severe, austere”), Danish and Norwegian streng (“strong, hard”), Faroese and Icelandic strangur (“strict”), Norwegian strang (“strong, harsh, bitter”), Swedish sträng, strang (“severe, strict, harsh”), Latin stringō (“tighten”). Related to strict and string.
- stark(German)→
- stringō(la)→
- sträng(Swedish)→
- strang(no)→
- strangur(Icelandic)→
- -(fo)→
- streng(no)→
- -(da)→
- streng(German)→
- streng(Dutch)→
- string(fy)→
- strang(stq)→
- strang(Scots)→
- *strengʰ-(ine-pro)→
- *strangaz(gem-pro)→
- *strang(gmw-pro)→
- strang(Old English)→
- strong(Middle English)→
- *strengʰ-(ine-pro)→
- strong (English)
- Relations: root, inh, inh, inh, inh, der, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, clq
Related words
Descendant words
- streng(Danish) (cog)
- streng(Dutch) (cog)
- streng(German) (cog)
- chrang(Jamaican Creole) (der)
- chrang(Jamaican Creole) (der)
- tranga(Sranan Tongo) (der)
- strong(Swedish) (der)
- strong(Tok Pisin) (der)
- strongim(Tok Pisin) (der)
- strongpela(Tok Pisin) (der)
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