Where does “tronçonnage” come from?

tronçonnage (French) comes from French tronçonner, from French tronçon, from Old French trons, from Latin trunceus, from Latin truncus, from Proto-Indo-European twerḱ- — to carve, cut off, trim.

tronçonnage (French): slicing, cutting

Definitions

  1. slicing, cutting

Ancestry of “tronçonnage”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchtronçonnerto slice, to slice up
2Frenchtronçonslice, section
3Old Frenchtrons—
4Latintrunceus—
5Latintruncuslopped, docked; maimed, mangled, mutilated; A...
6Proto-Indo-Europeantwerḱ-to carve, cut off, trim
Every word from Proto-Indo-European twerḱ- →Every word from Latin truncus →Every word from Latin trunceus →