Where does “trafficked” come from?

Trafficked comes from English traffic, derived from Middle French trafique, from Italian traffico and its verb trafficare, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European verbal adjective suffixes -eh₂tos and -tós.

trafficked (English): Carrying traffic; subject to traffic; simple past...

Definitions

  1. Carrying traffic; subject to traffic; simple past...

Ancestry of “trafficked”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishtrafficPedestrians or vehicles on roads, or the flux or...
2Middle Frenchtrafiquetraffic
3Italiantrafficotraffic; trade; activity, rush
4Vulgar Latintransfricareto rub across
5Latinfricōto rub
6LatinfrioI crumble, rub, or break into pieces
7Proto-Italic*friāō—

Words derived from “trafficked”

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