Tuesday, March 2, 2010

TRAVELLING words...about TRAVELLING

Petit voyage éthymologique au pays des mots voyageurs...



  • TRAVEL
Origin:
1325–75; Middle English, same origin as  travail - by shift “to toil, labor” > “to make a laborious journey”)
Travail - Origin: 1200–50; (v.) Middle English travaillen <  Old French travaillier to torment <  Latin *trepaliāre to torture, derived of Latin trepālium torture chamber, lit., instrument of torture made with three stakes (see tri-, pale2); (n.) Middle English
  • JOURNEY
Origin:
1175–1225; Middle English journee
day 
< Old French journee day  Latin *diurnāta a day's time, day's work, etc., equivalent to Latin diurn(us) daily + -āta, feminine of -ātus -ate;
  • TRIP
Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English trippen to step lightly 
< Old French trip(p)er < Middle Dutch; cf. early Dutch trippen, Dutch trippelen (freq. with -el), akin to Old English treppan to tread
  • VOYAGE
Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English ve(i)age, viage, voyage 
< Old French < Latin viāticum travel-money; see viaticum
  • TOUR
Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English (n.)
< Middle French < Latin tornus < Greek tórnos tool for making a circle. See turn
  • EXCURSION
Origin:
1565–75; Latin excursiōn- (s. of excursiō). See excursus, -ion