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Where does “tronc” come from?

tronc (Catalan) comes from Latin truncus, from Proto-Indo-European twerḱ- — to carve, cut off, trim.

tronc (Catalan): trunk; the central vertical part of a castell...

Definitions

  1. trunk; the central vertical part of a castell...

Ancestry of “tronc”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latintruncuslopped, docked; maimed, mangled, mutilated; A...
2Proto-Indo-Europeantwerḱ-to carve, cut off, trim
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