Strath

[2] Strath- names have a similar origin to Gaelic srath, meaning "broad-valley", as well as to Cumbric and Pictish cognates (cf.

[3] The modern Scottish Gaelic sense of "broad-valley", paralleling the meaning of Brittonic cognates, developed from substrate influence from Pictish.

[3] It occurs in numerous place names within Scotland including Strathmore, Strathspey and Strathclyde.

It also occurs in the names of five Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company liners, four of which, the Strathaird, the Strathnaver, the Stratheden and the Strathmore, carried thousands of migrants to Australia between the 1950s and the 1960s.

For example, at least three such straths are present in the valley of the Rio Grande River near Albuquerque, New Mexico.