Where does “law-trained” come from?

law-trained (English) comes from English trained, from English train, from Middle English train, from Old French train, from Old French traïner, from Vulgar Latin traginare, from Latin tragēre, from Latin trahere — to run.

law-trained (English): (of a person or persons) who studied law, who has a law degree

Definitions

  1. (of a person or persons) who studied law, who has a law degree

Ancestry of “law-trained”, step by step

law-trained traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English trained

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishtrainedHaving undergone a course of training;...
2EnglishtrainElongated portion; Connected sequence of people...
3Middle Englishtrain
4Old Frenchtraina delay, a drawing out
5Old FrenchtraïnerAlternative form of trainer; to pull out, to draw
6Vulgar Latintraginarepresent active infinitive of *traginō
7Latintragēre
8Latintraheresecond-person singular future passive indicative...
9LatintrahoI drag, pull; I trail; I extract, withdraw
10Proto-Italictraɣō
11Proto-Indo-Europeantregʰ-to drag, pull?; to run, walk
12Proto-Indo-Europeandʰregʰ-to run

via English Law

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishLawperhaps originally meaning someone who lives near a burial mound
2EnglishspeakerOne who speaks; Loudspeaker; Speakerphone
3English-ineOf or pertaining to; Used to form demonyms;...
4French-inefeminine singular of -in; female equivalent of...
5Frenchpast participle root verb suffix of regular -er...
6Middle Frenchpast participle root verb suffix of regular; -ed, -en, -n
7Old Frenchused to form past participles of regular -er...
8Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
9Proto-ItalicForms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases
10Proto-Indo-European-éh₂
Every word from Proto-Indo-European dʰregʰ-
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