- srath
- a valey, strath, Irish, Middle Irish srath, meadow land or holm along banks of a river or loch, often swampy (Joyce), Old Irish israth, in gramine, Welsh ystrad, strath, Early Welsh strat, istrat, planities: *stratu-, root ster, spread, scatter; Latin strâtus, from sterno, I strew; Greek $$Gstrwtós, spread, $$Gstorénnumi, scatter; English strew, strand (?).
Etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language. Alexander Gairm Publications. 1982.