straung

English

Adjective

straung (comparative straunger, superlative straungest)

1. Obsolete form of strange.
   • 1579, Plutarke of Chæronea [i.e., Plutarch], “Agis and Cleomenes”, in Thomas North, transl., The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, […], London: […] Richard Field, →OCLC, page 852:

     Agis agayne aunſwered him: that he maruelled not that Leonidas beeing brought vp in a ſtraung contry, and alſo maryed there in a noble mans houſe, he ſhould be ignorant of Lycurgus lawes, who baniſhing gold and ſiluer out of his citie, did therewithall exile dette and lending.

Middle English

Adjective

straung

1. alternative form of straunge

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Etymology

From Middle English strang, from Old English strang, from Proto-West Germanic *strang.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /strɑŋ/

Adjective

straung

1. strong
   • 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 93:

     "steoute and straung,"

     stout and strong;

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 70