Note 141 — Chapter V · THE DEVELOPMENT OF ROOTS.
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Who would have thought à priori that the word “stranger” has its root in the single vowel e, the Latin preposition for “from”? Yet we see it to be so, “the moment that the intermediate links of the chain are submitted to our examination,—e, ex, extra, extraneus, étranger, stranger.”—Dugald Stewart, Philos. Es. p. 217, 4th ed.