Where does “trade” come from?

Trade comes from Middle English trade, from Middle Low German trade, from Old Saxon trada, from Proto-Germanic tradō, from Proto-Indo-European der-.

trade (English): Buying and selling of goods and services on a...

Definitions

  1. Buying and selling of goods and services on a...

Ancestry of “trade”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishtradepath, course of conduct
2Middle Low Germantradetrack, course
3Old Saxontradaspoor, track
4Proto-West Germanic*trudo—

Words derived from “trade”

Every word from Proto-West Germanic *trudo →Every word from Old Saxon trada →Every word from Middle Low German trade →