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- noun A
religious pilgrim inRussia .
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polymorph commented on the word strannik
Some additional insight into this Russian word is found in this document:
"In contemporary Russian, strana doesn’t mean “other’s country�?, simply “country�?.... Etymological dictionaries however indicate the shared root of strana and storona (part)... Hence also the strannik, the pilgrim, the one who travels, and that is strange, in the sense that he is literally out of (his normal) place. Something similar happens in Italian too, with the etymology of “strano�? and “straniero�?."
According to the wikipedia entry for Grigori Rasputin, the so-called mad monk was considered a strannik or "religious pilgrim".
ninjawords tries to resolve this as 'strange' which probably is related.
April 16, 2007