The verb “travel” in the sense of “go from one place to another” or “make a journey,” is unique to English, deriving from the Middle English travailen, which originally meant “to toil” or “to labor,” suggesting an association with the difficulty of travel in the Middle Ages. The Romance languages express the concept with terms derived from the Latin via (road, way, travel; e.g. French voyager; Italian viaggiare). German evolved the v…