Where does “trabuc” come from?
trabuc (Romanian) comes from German Trabuko, from Spanish trabuco, from Spanish trabucar, from Spanish buque, from French bouquet, from Old French bochet, from Old French bois, from Frankish busk — to become, grow, appear.
trabuc (Romanian): cigar
Ancestry of “trabuc”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | German | Trabuko | — |
| 2 | Spanish | trabuco | trebuchet; blunderbuss |
| 3 | Spanish | trabucar | to mess up, muddle up; to get muddled up |
| 4 | Spanish | buque | ship, vessel |
| 5 | French | bouquet | bouquet, bunch; a set or selection of something;... |
| 6 | Old French | bochet | — |
| 7 | Old French | bois | woodland; woods |
| 8 | Frankish | busk | bush; bush, thicket |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | buskaz | bush; thicket |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰuH- | to become, grow, appear |