strange

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁éǵʰ
2. Proto-Indo-European*h₁éǵʰs
3. Proto-Indo-European*h₁eǵʰsteros
4. Proto-Italic*eksteros
5. Latinexter
6. Latinextrā
7. Latinextrāneus
8. Old Frenchestrange
9. Anglo-Normanestraunge
10. Middle Englishstraunge
11. English todaystrange

From Middle English straunge, strange, stronge, from Old French estrange, from Latin extrāneus (“that which is on the outside”). Doublet of extraneous and estrange. Cognate with French étrange (“strange, foreign”) and Spanish extraño (“strange, foreign”). Largely displaced native fremd, selcouth, and uncouth, from Old English fremede, seldcūþ, and uncūþ.

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