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Asturian
Verb
estraño
- first-person singular present indicative of estrañar
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese estraño (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin extraneus. Doublet of estranxeiro.
Cognate with Portuguese estranho and Spanish extraño.
Pronunciation
Adjective
estraño (feminine estraña, masculine plural estraños, feminine plural estrañas)
- weird, odd, peculiar
- Synonym: raro
- strange; foreign
c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 170:viasse em terra estraya et el estrayo- he saw himself a stranger in a strange land
Noun
estraño m (plural estraños)
- stranger; foreigner, outsider
c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 170:viasse em terra estraya et el estrayo- he saw himself a stranger in a strange land
References
- Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “estraño”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “estraño”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “estray”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- “estraño” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “estraño” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “estraño” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Spanish
Adjective
estraño (feminine estraña, masculine plural estraños, feminine plural estrañas)
- Obsolete spelling of extraño.