straumur

From Old Norse straumr (“a stream, a current, a race; the tide, a river”), from Proto-Germanic *straumaz, from Proto-Indo-European *srowmos, from *srew- (“to flow”).

• IPA^(key): /strœyːmʏr̥/
• Rhymes: -øyːmʏr

straumur m (genitive singular straums, nominative plural straumar)

1. a stream, a current
2. an electric current ^syn.

• (electric current): ^def. rafstraumur

• berjast með straumnum
• bitastraumur (bit stream)
• standa straum, standa straum af (to bear the cost of)
• straumdulritun (stream cipher)
• straumritill (stream editor)
• straumur af fólki