Where does “tran” come from?

tran (Polish) comes from German trān, from Middle Low German trān, from Old Saxon trahn, from Proto-West Germanic *trahnu — tear in one's eye.

tran (Polish): fish oil

Definitions

  1. fish oil

Ancestry of “tran”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Germantrāntrain oil; oil extracted from the fatty tissue (blubber) of certain polar mammals
2Middle Low Germantrān—
3Old Saxontrahn—
4Proto-West Germanic*trahnutear in one's eye

Words derived from “tran”

Every word from Proto-West Germanic *trahnu →Every word from Old Saxon trahn →Every word from Middle Low German trān →