Where does “traincrew” come from?
traincrew (English) comes 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, from Latin traho — to run.
traincrew (English): The crew of employees that operate a railway...
Definitions
- The crew of employees that operate a railway...
Ancestry of “traincrew”, step by step
traincrew traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English train
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | train | Elongated portion; Connected sequence of people... |
| 2 | Middle English | train | — |
| 3 | Old French | train | a delay, a drawing out |
| 4 | Old French | traïner | Alternative form of trainer; to pull out, to draw |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | traginare | present active infinitive of *traginō |
| 6 | Latin | tragēre | — |
| 7 | Latin | trahere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 8 | Latin | traho | I drag, pull; I trail; I extract, withdraw |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | traɣō | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | tregʰ- | to drag, pull?; to run, walk |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰregʰ- | to run |
via English crew
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | crew | A group of people together; A person in a crew;... |
| 2 | Middle English | crue | — |
| 3 | Old French | creue | increase; augmentation; recruit; feminine... |
| 4 | Old French | croistre | to increase; to augment |
| 5 | Latin | crēscō | to rise, grow, grow up; prosper, thrive; increase, multiply, augment |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | krēskō | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱer- | to grow, to make grow, to nourish; to plait,... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | kr̥- | to turn, to bend |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ker- | army |