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Vinony

journey

noun

  1. time interval
  2. task or trip with some difficulty or longer than expected amount of time than planned
  3. travel
L1339 on Wikidata ↗

verb

  1. take a trip
L36952 on Wikidata ↗

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɝni/ / /ˈd͡ʒɜːni/

name

Etymology: From journey at the end of the 20th century.

  1. A female given name from English.

    “Mama named me Journey. Journey, as if somehow she wished her restlessness on me.”

noun

Etymology: Reborrowing from French journée (day's activities), originally an unadapted borrowing from French journée, from Old French jornee, from Vulgar Latin *diurnāta.

  1. The total time spent melting and working one piece.

verb

Etymology: From Middle English journe, from Old French jornee, from Vulgar Latin *diurnāta, from Late Latin diurnum, from Latin diurnus, from diēs (“day”). Displaced native Old English fær and Old English faru.

  1. To travel, to make a trip or voyage.

    “The arrangement for certain long-distance trains to call at suburban stations (saving passengers the trouble of journeying to the termini), which proved popular last year, is being extended.”