piligrim

Old High German

Alternative forms

  • pilicrīm, pilikrīm

Etymology

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

Noun

piligrīm m

  1. foreigner, stranger[2]

Declension

Declension of piligrīm (masculine a-stem)
case singular plural
nominative piligrīm piligrīmā, piligrīma
accusative piligrīm piligrīmā, piligrīma
genitive piligrīmes piligrīmo
dative piligrīme piligrīmum
instrumental piligrīmu —

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Lloyd, Albert L.; Lühr, Rosemarie (1988), “piligrîm”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Althochdeutschen‎[1] (in German), Göttingen/Zürich: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →ISBN
  2. ^ Karg-Gasterstädt, Elisabeth; Frings, Theodor; et al., editors (1952–2022), “piligrîm”, in Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch‎[2] (in German), Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, via Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig
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