[Sidenote: STRAD (A.S.), STRASSE (Ger.), STRŒDE (Scand.), SRAID (Gadhelic), YSTRAD (Cym.-Cel.),] a row, a street, a road, borrowed from the Lat. _strata_; _e.g._ Stratford (the ford near one of the great Roman roads, called streets); Stratford-le-Bow (the ford with the bow or bridge near the Roman road); Stratsett (the road station); Streatham and Stretton (the town on the road); Stratton, in Cornwall, and Stradbally, in Ireland (the village of one street); Straid, Strade (the street); Stradeen (little street), in Ireland; Strond, on the R. Strond; Strasbourg, in West Prussia (the town on the highway); but Strasbourg, in Alsace, anc. _Stratiburg_, is the German translation of its Latin name _Argentoriatum_ (the town of silver--_strati_, Teut., silver); Stony Stratford (the stony ford on the great Roman road, called Erming Street); Watling Street is said to have been named from _waedla_ (the mendicant or pilgrim); Icknield Street from the _Iceni_; Erming Street from _earm_ (a pauper). [Sidenote: STRAZNA (Sclav.),] a watch-tower, akin to the A.S. _streone_; _e.g._ Straznitz, in Moravia (the town with the watch-tower). [Sidenote: STRELITZ (Sclav.),] a huntsman; _e.g._ Strelitz-klein and Strelitz-gross (the great and little town of the huntsman, or of the _Strelitzi_, the name given to the lifeguards), in Russia; Strelitzkaia and Strielinskaia, with the same meaning. [Sidenote: STROM, STROOM (Teut.),] a stream or current; _e.g._ the Maelstrom (mill stream, so called from its rushing sound); Rheinstrom (the Rhine current); Stroomsloot (the sluice of the current); Stroma, Stromoe, Stromsoe, Stromay (the island of the current); Stromen and Stromstadt (the place near the current); Stromen-Fiorden (the bay of the current); Stromberg (the town or hill on the stream); Stromness (the headland of the current). [Sidenote: SU (Turc.),] water; _e.g._ Ak-su (the white stream); Kara-su (the black stream); Adji-su (bitter water). [Sidenote: SUD, SUTH, SODER, SOUDEN,] the south; Buttman traces this word to the sun, the oldest form of the word being _sundar_; _e.g._ Sonnenburg, Sonderhausen, Sundheim, Soudham, Southofen (the south dwelling or enclosure); Southdean (south hollow); Southwark, Dan. _Sydvirche_ (the south fortress); Southover (south shore); Suffolk (the district of the south people, as distinguished from Norfolk); Sutton and Sodbury (south town); Sudborne (south stream); Suderoe (south island); Sudetic Mountains (the southern mountain chain); Sudereys (the southern islands), a name applied by the Norsemen to all the British islands under their rule south of the Orkneys and north of the Island of Man--hence the bishoprick of _Sodor_ and Man; Sutherland (the land to the south of Caithness); Soderköping (the south market-town), in Sweden; Soest, in Prussia (on the Sosterbach); Sidlaw Hills (the south hills, in reference to their forming the south boundary of Strathmore). [Sidenote: SUMAR, SOMAR (Teut.),]