English
strangeling
From strange + -ling.
Formed from strange + -ling
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰsteros
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Latin extrā ‘on the outside’
Latin extrāneus ‘foreign, strange’
Old French estrange ‘foreign’
Middle English straunge ‘foreign’
English strange
Today it means
noun One who is strange, foreign, or unusual; stranger.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “strangeling”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / strangeling