pilegrim

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old English pilegrim, from Old French peligrin, pellegrin, variants of pelerin, from Latin peregrīnus.

Noun

pilegrim (plural pilegrimes)

  1. pilgrim
    • c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue, line LINES:
      Of sondry folk, by aventure yfalle / In felaweshipe, and pilgrimes were they alle,
      Of sundry persons who had chanced to fall / In fellowship, and pilgrims were they all

Descendants

  • English: pilgrim
  • Scots: pilgrim, pelegrin, pilgrin, pilgren, pylgryne

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin peregrinus and Old Norse pílagrímr.

Noun

pilegrim m (definite singular pilegrimen, indefinite plural pilegrimer, definite plural pilegrimene)

  1. a pilgrim

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin peregrinus and Old Norse pílagrímr.

Noun

pilegrim m (definite singular pilegrimen, indefinite plural pilegrimar, definite plural pilegrimane)

  1. a pilgrim

Derived terms

References

Old English

Etymology

From Old French pilegrin, pilegrine, pilgrim,[1] variants of pelerin, and its etymon Late Latin pelegrīnus, a dissimilated form of peregrīnus. See also Pilegrī̆m.

Noun

pilegrī̆m m (Late Old English)

  1. traveler, wanderer[1][2]
    • c. 1225[1], Rule of St. Benedict, Winteney version, (derived from an earlier source composed in the OE period[1][3]):
      Ða heane ⁊ þa pilegrimes ealre geornest beon underfangene, forðam þe Crist on heom swiðest byð anfangen
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 “pilgrim, noun.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
  2. ^ David Wilton (24 November 2020), “pilgrim”, in Wordorigins.org‎[1]
  3. ^ Hargreaves, Henry (1980), “Die Winteney-version der Regula S. Benedicti. Herausgegeben von Arnold Schröer. Nachdruck des mittelenglischen und lateinischen Textes nach der ersten Auflage mit einem Anhang von Mechtild Gretsch”, in Scriptorium‎[2], volume 34, number 1, pages 177-178

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin pelegrīnus, alteration of peregrīnus (“foreigner”), possibly though Middle Dutch pelegrijm or Middle Low German pēlegrīm.

Noun

pilegrīm m

  1. pilgrim (traveller on a pilgrimage)

References

  • Hofmann, Dietrich; Tjerk Popkema, Anne with co-op. Gisela Hofmann (2008), Altfriesisches Handwörterbuch [Old Frisian Concise Dictionary]‎[3] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH Heidelberg, →ISBN
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