peregrination

‘travel, pilgrimage’

Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:

    E. peregrinacion < O.F. peregrination ‘pilgrimage, long absence’ or < Lat. peregrinationem ‘a journey, a sojourn abroad’ < peregrinari ‘to journey or travel abroad’ < peregrinus ‘from foreign parts, foreigner’ < peregre ‘abroad’ < per ‘away’ + agri ‘field, territory, land, country’ < uhgruh < agro- < Tamil akaram