Where does “Tuntrap” come from?

Tuntrap (Plautdietsch) comes from Plautdietsch Tun, from Middle Low German tūn, from Old Saxon tūn, from Proto-West Germanic tūn, from Proto-Germanic tūną, from Gaulish dunum, from Proto-Celtic dūnom, from Proto-Indo-European dʰewh₂- — smoke; mist, haze.

Tuntrap (Plautdietsch): stile steps for getting over a fence

Definitions

  1. stile steps for getting over a fence

Ancestry of “Tuntrap”, step by step

Tuntrap traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Plautdietsch Tun

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1PlautdietschTunfence
2Middle Low Germantūn—
3Old Saxontūn—
4Proto-West Germanictūnfence
5Proto-Germanictūnąfence; enclosure
6Gaulishdunumfort; hill, hillfort
7Proto-Celticdūnomstronghold, rampart
8Proto-Indo-Europeandʰewh₂-smoke; mist, haze

via Proto-Germanic trap-

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanictrap-—
2Proto-Indo-Europeandreb-—
3Proto-Indo-Europeander-to split, to separate; to tear, to crack, to...
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