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hint: Å is the Swedish word for a stream/small river. translating ström is left as an exercise for the curious.
by mellavora 4y ago
hint: Å is the Swedish word for a stream/small river.
translating ström is left as an exercise for the curious.
- simonebrunozzi 4y agoSpoiler alert! ... I'd have guessed ström = stream. Seems like I'm right, more or less.
- diydsp 4y agobased on German, yes it is a stream, but not necessarily of water...
- Ma8ee 4y agoNot only stream but current.
- gruturo 4y agoYou're right, but it also means current, and that meaning is often used (in German too) to refer to electricity, which I imagine is what OP had in mind. It's indeed a perfect surname for researching / working on hydro power.
- brnt 4y agoThere are two rivers (creeks?) called Aa in the Netherlands. We don't have Aa or A in our dictonairy but now I wonder if there's a shared root somewhere.
- Symbiote 4y agoWiktionary is usually good with words like this: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/ahw%C5%8D#Descendants https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic... And it thinks "a" is an archaic Dutch word meaning stream: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/a#Dutch https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/a#Dutch
- Beltalowda 4y agoThere are far more than two, and according to [1] it is indeed related via the proto-Germanic "ahwō" for stream or river. [1]: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aa_(waternaam) https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aa_(waternaam)