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streng

Pronunciation: [sd̥ʁaŋˀ]

“streng” is a Danish word. Its 7 meanings in English:

adjective

  1. strict, tight, stringent
  2. hard, severe, rigorous
  3. stiff
  4. stern
  5. austere

noun

  1. string
  2. strand

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *strangijaz (“tight, tense”), cf. German streng. It is variant of the adjective Proto-Germanic *strangaz, Old Norse strangr, English strong.

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