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Where does “trueiro” come from?

trueiro (Galician) comes from Latin trua, from Proto-Indo-European terkʷ- — to turn, spin.

trueiro (Galician): a fishing hand net or landing net

Definitions

  1. a fishing hand net or landing net

Ancestry of “trueiro”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatintruaA ladle
2Proto-Indo-Europeanterkʷ-to turn, spin
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