Etymology

strangelet

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Today it means: A proposed fragment of strange matter, consisting of a bound state of roughly equal numbers of up, down, and strange quarks. Full definition →

English strange ← Middle English straunge ← Anglo-Norman estraunge
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The story

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

From strange + -let.

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