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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
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Latin
trabs
timber, beam, rafter; tree trunk; penis
2
Indo-European
*treb-
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Words derived from “trau”
entravar
trau
entraver
entrave
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