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Where does “truant” come from?

truant (Middle English) comes from Old French truant, from Gaulish trugan.

Ancestry of “truant”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchtruantvagabond, beggar; a vagabond, beggar, rogue",...
2Gaulishtrugan—

Words derived from “truant”

  • truant
  • truancy
  • truantry
  • truantly
  • antitruancy
  • truantship
Every word from Gaulish trugan →