"to travel" in seven languages
Meaningto travel
Spanish
/bjaˈxaɾ/
borrowed · built on viaje, from Catalan viatge
French
/vwajaʒe/
inherited
The verb is built on the inherited noun voyage.
Italian
/vjadˈdʒare/
borrowed · built on viaggio, from Old Occitan viatge
Portuguese
/vjaˈʒah/
borrowed · built on viagem, from Old Occitan viatge
Romanian
/kələtoˈri/
other source · built on călător 'traveller', of disputed origin
Catalan
/biəˈdʒa/
inherited
Catalan viatge is the home-grown form that Spanish viaje and Italian viaggio borrowed.
English
/ˈtɹævəl/
other source · Old French travaillier 'to toil, labour'
The Latin ancestor
VIĀTICUM‘provisions for a journey (from VIA 'road')’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Only French inherited VIĀTICUM directly (voyage); Spanish viaje and Italian viaggio came from Catalan and Occitan neighbours, and their -aje / -aggio endings give them away. English travel is French travail 'toil': journeys were hard work.
English relatives: voyage, viaticum, via
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In a sentence
- esMe encanta viajar en tren.
- frJ'adore voyager en train.
- itAdoro viaggiare in treno.
- ptAdoro viajar de trem.
- roÎmi place mult să călătoresc cu trenul.
- caM'encanta viatjar amb tren.
- enI love traveling by train.
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