Stree
/striː/noun
A Scots and northern English dialect word meaning straw.
Did you know?“Stree” preserves the long vowel of Old English strēaw more closely than modern standard English “straw,” revealing how regional speech can retain older forms for centuries.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*strew-
“To spread or scatter”
Old English
Old English
strēaw
“Straw; the dried stalks of cereal plants”
Middle English
Middle English
strewe / stree
“Straw, with regional vowel and spelling variation”
16th–17th Century
Scots
stree
“Straw; a dialect form retained in Scots usage”
Modern English
English
stree
“A regional or dialect word for straw”