stranger

stranger · adjective¹

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

stranger · noun, verb²

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. Old Frenchestrangier
10. Middle Englishstraunger
11. English todaystranger

From Middle English straunger, from Old French estrangier (“foreign, alien”), from estrange, from Latin extraneus (“foreign, external”) (whence also English estrange), from extra (“outside of”). Cognate with French étranger (“foreigner, stranger”) and Spanish extranjero (“foreigner”). Displaced native Old English fremde (literally “strange or unfamiliar person”).

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