viage

See also: viagé

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvja.ʒe/

Noun

viage (plural viages)

1. trip, journey, travel, voyage

Middle English

Alternative forms

• veage, viag, viagge, vyage
• wyage (East Anglia); veiage (Southwest Midland)
• vaiage (Northern); vayage, wayage, wiage (Early Scots)

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman veage, viage, from Latin viāticum. First attested in c. 1300.

Northern forms with /æi̯/ reflect the Anglo-Norman collateral form veiage (compare modern French voyage), possibly an analogical alteration after the simplex veie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌviːˈaːd͡ʒ(ə)/, /ˈviː.ad͡ʒ(ə)/
• IPA^(key): /ˌvæi̯ˈaːd͡ʒ/, /ˈvæi̯.ad͡ʒ/ (especially Northern)

Noun

viage (plural viages)

1. A journey or trip; an instance of travel:
   • Chaucer, Of reste, of labour, of viages
   1. A military expedition or campaign.
   2. A journey by ship; a voyage.
   3. (figuratively) One's path to Heaven or Hell.
2. (rare) An enterprise or endeavour.

Descendants

• English: voyage
• Middle Scots: vayage, veyage, viage, voage
  • Scots: vaege, voge
  • Shetland: vaige

References

• “vī̆āǧe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “viage, v(a)yage, ve(y)age, vo(y)age, vaage, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.

See also

• pilgrimage

Norman

Etymology

From Old French voiage, viage, veiage, from Latin viāticum, from via (“road”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

viage m (plural viages)

1. (Jersey, continental) journey

Derived terms

• viagi

Related terms

• viageux

Old French

Noun

viage oblique singular, m (oblique plural viages, nominative singular viages, nominative plural viage)

1. alternative form of voiage

   prist soun viage devers Gascoigne par assignement del counseil nostre seignur le roy

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Spanish

Noun

viage m (plural viages)

1. obsolete spelling of viaje