a watch-tower, akin to the A.S. streone; e.g. Straznitz, in Moravia (the town with the watch-tower).
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.
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).
SU (Turc.),
water; e.g. Ak-su (the white stream); Kara-su (the black stream); Adji-su (bitter water).
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).
SUMAR, SOMAR (Teut.),