English
strangerly
From stranger + -ly.
Formed from stranger + -ly
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰsteros
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Latin extrāneus ‘foreign, external’
Old French estrange ‘foreign’
Old French estrangier ‘foreign, alien’
Middle English straunger ‘an outsider or foreigner’
English stranger
Today it means
adj Of, befitting, or characteristic of a stranger; strangerlike.
Sources
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