Where does “trān” come from?

trān (German) comes from Middle Low German trān, from Old Saxon trahn, from Proto-West Germanic *trahnu — tear in one's eye.

trān (German): train oil; oil extracted from the fatty tissue (blubber) of certain polar mammals

Definitions

  1. train oil; oil extracted from the fatty tissue (blubber) of certain polar mammals

Ancestry of “trān”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Low Germantrān—
2Old Saxontrahn—
3Proto-West Germanic*trahnutear in one's eye

Words derived from “trān”

Every word from Proto-West Germanic *trahnu →Every word from Old Saxon trahn →Every word from Middle Low German trān →