Actually, "Straet" (Street) or "Weg" (Way) are the common AS words - Rad generally means "Riding" or "Expedition". It *is* thematically related to "Road", but "Road" is really: "that place where you go riding". (Rad is also one of the AS runes, whose meaning is "Ride" or "go on an journey").
"Weg" gets a lot of use: "By the way", Highway", "Out of the Way", "Wayfarer", "Waybread" (yep, that's AS, Tolkien didn't invent the term), etc. The Saxons even had a word for "Highway Robbery" (Wegreafa, from Weg+Reaf "to plunder", whence "reaver").
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