straunge

• strang, strange, stranghe, straunche, straunge, strong, stronge, strounge

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman estraunge, a variant of Old French estrange, from Latin extraneus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstrau̯nd͡ʒ(ə)/, (late) /ˈstraːnd͡ʒ(ə)/, (dialectal) /ˈstrɔnd͡ʒ(ə)/

straunge (plural and weak singular straunge, comparative straunger, superlative straungest)

1. 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.

2. strange, unusual, other
   • a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “Book II”, in Troilus and Criseyde, lines 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 […]

3. ignorant, unlearned
4. hostile, alien, unkind
5. extraneous, external

• straungely
• straungenesse
• straunger

• English: strange
• Scots: streenge, strynge

• “straunǧe, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-10.

straunge (plural straunges)

1. foreigner, outsider
2. Another foreign land or place.

• “straunǧe, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-10.