English
strangification
From strange + -ification or strangify + -ation.
Formed from strange + -ification
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 The act or process of making strange or exotic.
Sources
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Etymograph / strangification