Strange
Middle English: shortening of Old French estrange, from Latin extraneus ‘external, strange’.
wiktionary
From Middle English straunge, strange, stronge, from Old French estrange, from Latin extrāneus(“that which is on the outside”). Doublet of extraneous. Cognate with French étrange(“strange, foreign”) and Spanish extraño(“strange, foreign”). Displaced native Old English seldcūþ.
etymonline
strange (adj.)
late 13c., straunge, "from elsewhere, foreign, unknown, unfamiliar, not belonging to the place where found," from Old French estrange "foreign, alien, unusual, unfamiliar, curious; distant; inhospitable; estranged, separated" (Anglo-French estraunge, strange, straunge; Modern French étrange), from Latin extraneus "foreign, external, from without" (source also of Italian strano "strange, foreign," Spanish extraño), from extra "outside of" (see extra-). In early use also strounge. The surname Lestrange is attested from late 12c. Sense of "queer, surprising" is attested from c. 1300, also "aloof, reserved, distant; estranged." In nuclear physics, from 1956.
