Where does “tronco” come from?

tronco (Galician) comes from Latin truncus, from Proto-Indo-European twerḱ- — to carve, cut off, trim.

tronco (Galician): trunk; stalk of a vine; stalk of a cabbage

Definitions

  1. trunk; stalk of a vine; stalk of a cabbage

Ancestry of “tronco”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latintruncuslopped, docked; maimed, mangled, mutilated; A...
2Proto-Indo-Europeantwerḱ-to carve, cut off, trim
Every word from Proto-Indo-European twerḱ- →Every word from Latin truncus →