Where does “tractor” come from?

Tractor comes from Latin tractus, the past participle of trahere and traho, which derive from Proto-Indo-European tragʰ- and ultimately dʰregʰ-, meaning to draw or pull.

tractor (English): A vehicle used in farms e.g. for pulling farm...

Definitions

  1. A vehicle used in farms e.g. for pulling farm...

Ancestry of “tractor”, step by step

tractor traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Latin trahere

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latintraheresecond-person singular future passive indicative...
2LatintrahoI drag, pull; I trail; I extract, withdraw
3Proto-Italictraɣō
4Proto-Indo-Europeantregʰ-to drag, pull?; to run, walk
5Proto-Indo-Europeandʰregʰ-to run

via New Latin tractor

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1New Latintractorfirst-person singular present passive indicative...
2Latintrahōto drag, pull
3Proto-Indo-Europeandʰreǵʰ-to drag, draw, pull; to draw, drag

Words derived from “tractor

Every word from Proto-Indo-European dʰregʰ-
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