travel

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To go from one place to another, especially over a long distance.

   They travelled across Europe by train last summer.

2. 2
   noun

   The activity of going from one place to another, especially to distant places.

   She loves travel and has visited over forty countries.

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Simplified etymology

Travel developed from Middle English travail, meaning “painful or laborious effort,” and the two forms were once interchangeable. They ultimately trace to Latin trepalium, the name of a three-staked instrument of torture, whose name refers to its three stakes.

PIE word *tréyes From Middle English travelen (“to make a laborious journey, travel”) from Middle Scots travailen (“to toil, work, travel”), alteration of Middle English travaillen (“to toil, work”), from Old French travailler (“to trouble, suffer, be worn out”). See the doublets travail and travois. Compare typologically routine << Latin rupta via. Note the inverse semantic vectors: travel moves from a subjective state (toil) to an objective action (journey), while routine moves from an objective object (beaten path) to a subjective pattern (habit). Largely displaced native fare, from Old En…

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