Where does “trencher” come from?
Trencher comes from Anglo-Norman trenchour, from Middle English trenchour, with origins in cutting or serving food based on the root sense of dividing.
trencher (English): A long plate on which food is served and/or cut;...
Definitions
- A long plate on which food is served and/or cut;...
Ancestry of “trencher”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | trenchour | A cutting tool; a knife or blade |
| 2 | Anglo-Norman | trenchour | cutter |
| 3 | Old French | trenchier | to cut |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | trinicare | cut into three parts; cut in three parts |
| 5 | Latin | trini | nominative masculine plural of trīnus; genitive... |
| 6 | Latin | tres | three; 3 |
| 7 | English | three | A numerical value after two and before four.... |
| 8 | Middle English | thre | three |
| 9 | Old English | þrī | three |
| 10 | Proto-West Germanic | þrīʀ | three |
| 11 | Proto-Germanic | þrīz | three |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | *tréyes | — |