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[Laurence Horn]

Looks to me as though while "strait" and its doublet "strict" track back to IE *streig- via Latin _strictus_, "straight" (like cognate "stretch") only goes back to a common West Germanic *strakko- 'straight, rigid, stiff' (OED, but AHD gives similar info.).   But I'm not a lexicographer and don't even play one on television.  

LH

> On Sep 19, 2016, at 1:27 PM, Robin Hamilton <robin.hamilton3 at VIRGINMEDIA.COM> wrote:
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> Is there anywhere an etymological exploration of the strait/straight/streight
> set?
> 
> My feeling is we're rocking between Scylla and a tight place here.
> 
> Robin Hamilton
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>>    On 19 September 2016 at 17:33 Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>>    On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 10:00 AM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
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>>> The proverbial "straight and narrow path" collapses--and reanalyzes--the
>>> biblical (King James Version) "strait gate" and "narrow path."
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>>    God is straightforward only in His well-known hatred of homosexuality.
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