Where does “ruck” come from?
Ruck comes from Old Norse hrukka, from Proto-Germanic hrunkijō, from Proto-Indo-European (s)ker-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European sek-, meaning to cut or divide.
ruck (English): A throng or crowd of people or things; a mass, a...
Definitions
- A throng or crowd of people or things; a mass, a...
Ancestry of “ruck”, step by step
ruck traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via English rook
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | rook | A European bird, "Corvus frugilegus", of the crow... |
| 2 | Middle English | rook | — |
| 3 | Old French | roc | rook |
| 4 | Arabic | رُخّ | — |
| 5 | Persian | رخ | rook; cheek; face |
| 6 | Middle Persian | lhw' | rook, castle |
| 7 | Sanskrit | रथ | chariot, car, especially a two-wheeled... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | Hrátʰas | chariot |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | Hrót-h₂-os | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | Hret- | to roll; wheel; to run, roll |
via German rücken
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | rücken | to move, to push; to move over |
| 2 | Middle High German | rücken | — |
| 3 | Old High German | rucchen | — |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | *rukkijan | — |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | rukkijaną | to pull, to tug; to rock |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | -janą | Derives denominatives from nouns and factitives... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 9 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |