Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—S

Strange

(1 syl.). Latin, extra (without); whence extraneus (one without); old French, estrange; Italian, strano, etc. Stranger, therefore, is extraneus, one without.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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