straunge
Middle English
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman estraunge, a variant of Old French estrange, from Latin extraneus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈstrau̯ndʒ(ə)/, /ˈstraːndʒ(ə)/, /ˈstrɔndʒ(ə)/
Adjective
straunge (inflected form straunge, comparative straunger, superlative straungest)
- foreign; overseas
- late 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue:
- Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages
- And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes
- To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;
- Then folk do long to go on pilgrimage,
- And palmers to go seeking out strange strands,
- To distant shrines well known in distant lands.
- late 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue:
- strange, unusual, other
- a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “Book II”, in Troilus and Criseyde, line 22-28:
- Ȝe knowe ek that in fourme of ſpeche is chaunge / With-inne a thousand ȝeer, and wordes tho /That hadden pris now wonder nyce and ſtraunge /Us thenketh hem, and ȝet thei ſpake hem so / And ſpedde as wel in loue as men now do / Ek forto wynnen loue in ſondry ages / In ſondry londes, ſondry ben vſages […]
- You also know that the form of language is in flux; / within a thousand years, words / that had currency; really weird and bizarre / they seem to us now, but they still spoke them / and accomplished as much in love as men do now. / As for winning love across ages and / across nations, there are lots of usages […]
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- ignorant, unlearned
- hostile, alien, unkind
- extraneous, external
Descendants
- Scots: streenge, strynge
- English: strange
References
- “straunǧe (adj.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-10.
References
- “straunǧe (adj.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-10.
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