English
strangerwise
From stranger + -wise.
Formed from stranger + -wise
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰsteros
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Latin extrāneus ‘foreign, external’
Old French estrange ‘foreign’
Old French estrangier ‘foreign, alien’
Middle English straunger ‘an outsider or foreigner’
English stranger
Today it means
adv As a stranger; unknown.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / strangerwise