Where does “pocatraça” come from?
pocatraça (Catalan) comes from Spanish traca, from Vulgar Latin tractio, from Latin trahere, from Latin traho, from Proto-Italic traɣō, from Proto-Indo-European tregʰ-, from Proto-Indo-European dʰregʰ- — to run.
pocatraça (Catalan): a clumsy person, a klutz, a bungler
Definitions
- a clumsy person, a klutz, a bungler
Ancestry of “pocatraça”, step by step
pocatraça traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Spanish traca
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | traca | a string of firecrackers, fireworks, bangers,... |
| 2 | Vulgar Latin | tractio | to delineate, score, trace |
| 3 | Latin | trahere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 4 | Latin | traho | I drag, pull; I trail; I extract, withdraw |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | traɣō | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | tregʰ- | to drag, pull?; to run, walk |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰregʰ- | to run |