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Roman via strāta was a 'paved road'; Germanic peoples borrowed strāta for the stone highways they met, and Old English strǣt named the Roman roads of Britain like Watling Street. Italian strada, Portuguese estrada and Dutch straat are the same road, and Dutch settlers carried it to South Africa.

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The road to English

From Late Latin to Old High German, German

From Late Latin to Middle Dutch, Dutch, Afrikaans

From Late Latin to Italian, Romanian

From Late Latin to Portuguese

300 CELate Latin

Hops are evenly spaced; labels show the year each form is first attested.

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