Where does “trade” come from?

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

trade (Middle Low German): track, course

Definitions

  1. track, course

Ancestry of “trade”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Saxontradaspoor, track
2Proto-West Germanic*trudo—

Words derived from “trade”

Every word from Proto-West Germanic *trudo →Every word from Old Saxon trada →