pilegrim

Middle English

Alternative forms

• pilgrim, pilgram, pilgrem, pilgrum, pilgerim, pilegrin, pillegrim

Etymology

Inherited from Old English pilegrim, from Old French peligrin, pellegrin, variants of pelerin, from Latin peregrīnus.

Noun

pilegrim (plural pilegrimes)

1. pilgrim
   • c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue, line LINES:

     Of sondry folk, by aventure yfalle / In felaweshipe, and pilgrimes were they alle,

     Of sundry persons who had chanced to fall / In fellowship, and pilgrims were they all

Descendants

• English: pilgrim
• Scots: pilgrim, pelegrin, pilgrin, pilgren, pylgryne

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin peregrinus and Old Norse pílagrímr.

Noun

pilegrim m (definite singular pilegrimen, indefinite plural pilegrimer, definite plural pilegrimene)

1. a pilgrim

Derived terms

• pilegrimsferd
• pilegrimsreise

References

• “pilegrim” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin peregrinus and Old Norse pílagrímr.

Noun

pilegrim m (definite singular pilegrimen, indefinite plural pilegrimar, definite plural pilegrimane)

1. a pilgrim

Derived terms

• pilegrimsferd

References

• “pilegrim” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

From Old French pilegrin, pilegrine, pilgrim, variants of pelerin, and its etymon Late Latin pelegrīnus, a dissimilated form of peregrīnus. See also Pilegrī̆m.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.leɡ.riːm/, [ˈpi.leɣ.riːm]

Noun

pilegrī̆m m (Late Old English)

1. traveler, wanderer
   • c. 1225, Rule of St. Benedict, Winteney version, (derived from an earlier source composed in the OE period):

     Ða heane ⁊ þa pilegrimes ealre geornest beon underfangene, forðam þe Crist on heom swiðest byð anfangen

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Old Frisian

Alternative forms

• pelgrīm, pilgrīm, pilugrīm

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin pelegrīnus, alteration of peregrīnus (“foreigner”), possibly though Middle Dutch pelegrijm or Middle Low German pēlegrīm.

Noun

pilegrīm m

1. pilgrim (traveller on a pilgrimage)

References

• Hofmann, Dietrich; Tjerk Popkema, Anne with co-op. Gisela Hofmann (2008), Altfriesisches Handwörterbuch [Old Frisian Concise Dictionary]‎^[3] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH Heidelberg, →ISBN