strange – English noun declension

English noun forms of strange

Noun: strange
Singularstrange
Pluralstranges

Sample Sentences

  • It was a bar by license, but in hiring practice it became an intergalactic smorgasbord of xenosexual delights, females of fancy species serving drinks and offering cultural exchange to human males seeking some strange. [2010, Larry Doyle, “Back Seat Dating”, in Go, Mutants!: A Novel, 1st edition (Fiction), HarperCollinsPublishers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 123:]
  • All he has to do is walk into a bar, and he can get some Strange.'” “Oh yeah, Tom,” I mutter, “that's exactly how it was, every Saturday night. Nothing but Strange. Up here too.” [2017, J.D. Kleinke, Dudeville:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
3. Proto-Indo-European *-s
4. Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
5. Proto-Indo-European *-teros
6. Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰsteros
7. Proto-Italic *eksteros
8. Latin exter
9. Latin extrā
10. Proto-Indo-European *-nós
11. Proto-Italic *-nos
12. Proto-Italic *-ānos
13. Latin -ānus
14. Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
15. Proto-Indo-European *-éyos
16. Proto-Italic *-ejos
17. Proto-Italic *-eos
18. Latin -eus
19. Latin -āneus
20. Latin extrāneusder.
21. Old French estrange
22. Anglo-Norman estraungebor.
23. Middle English straunge
24. English strange
25. From Middle English straunge, strange, stronge, from Old French estrange, from Latin extrāneus (“that which is on the outside”). Doublet of extraneous and estrange. Cognate with French étrange (“strange, foreign”) and Spanish extraño (“strange, foreign”). Largely displaced native fremd, selcouth, and uncouth, from Old English fremede, seldcūþ, and uncūþ. See: Middle English Nouns 'straunge', Latin Nouns 'extrāneus', French Nouns 'étrange', Spanish Nouns 'extraño'.

Verbs referencing "strange"

Spanish Nouns extranjero.