FROM TRAVAIL TO TRAVEL

TUMBLEWEED SMITH
TUMBLEWEED SMITH

A college professor told me one time that the word travel comes from the word travail. I thought he said it in jest, but it turns out he was correct. I looked up the origin of the word travel and got this information: Travel comes from the Middle English word travailen, meaning to toil, labor, torment or struggle. Looking further into the matter, the word torture appears as one of the earlier Lati…