Where does “Stromtrasse” come from?

Stromtrasse (German) comes from German Trasse, from French tracé, from French tracer, from Old French tracier, from Latin tractiāre, from Latin tractus, from Latin trahere, from Latin traho — to run.

Stromtrasse (German): power line

Definitions

  1. power line

Ancestry of “Stromtrasse”, step by step

Stromtrasse traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via German Trasse

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanTrasseline
2Frenchtracépast participle of tracer
3Frenchtracerto draw or plot (a diagram), to trace out
4Old Frenchtracier
5Latintractiāretrace, score, delineate
6Latintractusdragged, having been dragged; trailed, having...
7Latintraheresecond-person singular future passive indicative...
8LatintrahoI drag, pull; I trail; I extract, withdraw
9Proto-Italictraɣō
10Proto-Indo-Europeantregʰ-to drag, pull?; to run, walk
11Proto-Indo-Europeandʰregʰ-to run

via German ström

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Germanströmsingular imperative of strömen; first-person...
2Middle High Germanstroum
3Old High Germanstroum
4Proto-West Germanicstraumstream
5Proto-Germanicstraumazstream, current, river
6Proto-Indo-Europeansrowmosriver
7Proto-Indo-Europeansrew-to flow, stream
8Proto-Indo-Europeanser-to flow; to guard; to bind, to tie together
Every word from Proto-Indo-European dʰregʰ-