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Irish
Etymology
From Old French estrangier (“foreign, alien”), from Latin extrāneus (“foreign, external”); adapted to the suffix -éir.
Pronunciation
Noun
strainséir m (genitive singular strainséara, nominative plural strainséirí)
- stranger (to a person or to a place)
Declension
Further reading
- “strainséir”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “strainséir”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 696
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “strainséir”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN