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Where does “trau” come from?

trau (Old Occitan) comes from Latin trabs, from Indo-European *treb-.

Ancestry of “trau”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latintrabstimber, beam, rafter; tree trunk; penis
2Indo-European*treb-—
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