Where does “trosse” come from?

trosse (German) comes from Middle Low German trosse, from Old French trousse, from Latin torsus, from Latin tortus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

trosse (German): hawser

Definitions

  1. hawser

Ancestry of “trosse”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Low Germantrosse
2Old Frenchtroussepack; bunch, bundle
3Latintorsus
4Latintortustwisted, crooked; spun, whirled; bent, distorted
5Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
6Proto-Italic-tus
7Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus