Grice e Zubiena

 The primary meaning of the T'eut, root sirld. is commonly assumed lu be 'contention' or 'strong effort'.  the king. sense of the rb., 'to take lung sleps' (vense a below), would be a developinent fron the cuntinental sense "tu strive'.     This would in it-ell be ponsible, hut sense 1 would remain unexplained.     The assumption of a primary sense  'so diverge' (cf. Skr. snidh 10 go astray) would account plausibly on the one hand for the xelse "lu querrel', the other hand for the sense "lu straddle'  • from wlch the  senre '10 like long sieps' woull be a nalural development.    The recent examples show much uncertainty with regard to the conjugation. Perhaps (thuugh this is far from certain) must people would give siro.18,  stridder in answer 10 a  grammatical question, but in crual speech and writing there in ofton hevitation as 10 llie correct form. "I he pa pple. rarely occurs; our material includes hardly any loth or soth c. examples of stridden, and not many of strider, In the pa 8. strade is certainly thie usual form; but where the relerence is to a single act and not lu a manner of prugression there seems lo bo a lendency lo say strura ('1 strided over (be ditch").)