Where does “trade” come from?

trade (Middle English) comes from Middle Low German trade, from Old Saxon trada, from Proto-West Germanic *trudo.

trade (Middle English): path, course of conduct

Definitions

  1. path, course of conduct

Ancestry of “trade”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Low Germantradetrack, course
2Old Saxontradaspoor, track
3Proto-West Germanic*trudo—

Words derived from “trade”

Every word from Proto-West Germanic *trudo →Every word from Old Saxon trada →Every word from Middle Low German trade →