Travel

Morpheme

Travel

Type

free base

Denotation

journey, go from place to place

Etymology

Middle English trauel, travell, travail from travailen; Old French travel, traveil, travail, travaille, travailler; Late Latin tripālium; Latin tripālis

Evidence

antitravel, cybertravel, ecotravel, hypertravel, nontravel, overtravel, retravel, travel, travelblog, traveled, traveler, travelholic, traveling, travels, travelworn

Notes

variant of travail
<l> does not double because the stress falls on the first syllable