pelegrim

Middle Low German

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin pelegrīnus,[1] alteration of peregrīnus (“foreigner”); the final /m/ is influenced by personal names in -grīm such as Isengrīm, as in the parallel loans Old High German piligrīm, Middle Dutch pelegrijm, and Old Frisian pilegrīm.

Noun

pēlegrīm m

  1. foreigner, immigrant, migrant
  2. pilgrim (traveller on a pilgrimage)
  3. (Christianity) inhabitant of Earth (being apart from God)

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelniederdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)
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