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stravaig.

To stroll or wander aimlessly on (a road, etc.); to ramble.

8 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

verb/stɹəˈveɪɡ/General-American, Received-Pronunciation/st̪rɑˈveːɡ/Ireland/st̪rə-/Ireland/straˈveɡ/Scotland
  1. To stroll or wander aimlessly on (a road, etc.); to ramble.

    Ireland · Northern-England · Scotland · transitive
  2. To stroll or wander; to ramble, to roam.

    Ireland · Northern-England · Scotland · intransitive
  3. Of a river, road, etc.: to meander, to wind.

    Ireland · Northern-England · Scotland · figuratively · intransitive
Where this word comes from

Possibly borrowed from Scots stravaig (“(verb) to wander idly, roam; to traverse; (noun) roaming about; casual ramble, stroll”), probably an aphetic form of English extravage (“(obsolete, rare) to go beyond the scope of something, digress; to talk wildly, ramble”), influenced by Scots vaig (“to wander idly, roam”). Extravage is a learned borrowing from Medieval Latin extrāvagārī (“to stray outside limits, wander”) (whence extravagate), from Latin extrā (“beyond, outside of”, preposition) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs (“out”)) + vagārī (the present active infinitive of vagor (“to ramble, roam, stroll about, wander”), from vagus (“rambling, roaming, strolling, wandering”) (further etymology uncertain) + -or (the first-person singular present passive indicative of -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs))).

noun/stɹəˈveɪɡ/General-American, Received-Pronunciation/st̪rɑˈveːɡ/Ireland/st̪rə-/Ireland/straˈveɡ/Scotland
  1. An act of strolling or wandering aimlessly; a ramble, a stroll, a wander.

    Ireland · Northern-England · Scotland
Where this word comes from

Possibly borrowed from Scots stravaig (“(verb) to wander idly, roam; to traverse; (noun) roaming about; casual ramble, stroll”), probably an aphetic form of English extravage (“(obsolete, rare) to go beyond the scope of something, digress; to talk wildly, ramble”), influenced by Scots vaig (“to wander idly, roam”). Extravage is a learned borrowing from Medieval Latin extrāvagārī (“to stray outside limits, wander”) (whence extravagate), from Latin extrā (“beyond, outside of”, preposition) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs (“out”)) + vagārī (the present active infinitive of vagor (“to ramble, roam, stroll about, wander”), from vagus (“rambling, roaming, strolling, wandering”) (further etymology uncertain) + -or (the first-person singular present passive indicative of -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs))).

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