pilgrim
PIL-grim · noun
Origin
From Middle English pilegrim, from Old English pilegrī̆m, from Old French pelegrin, from Latin peregrīnus, meaning 'foreigner.' The shift from /r…r/ to /l…r/ happened through dissimilation in early Romance languages, as seen also in Italian pellegrino.
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Related words
It's a doublet of peregrine — both words descend from the same Latin root, peregrīnus, but took different paths into English.