Where does “trenă” come from?
trenă (Romanian) comes from French traîne, from French traîner, from Vulgar Latin traginare, from Latin tragēre, from Latin trahere, from Latin traho, from Proto-Italic traɣō, from Proto-Indo-European tregʰ- — to run.
trenă (Romanian): train
Definitions
- train
Ancestry of “trenă”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | traîne | anything that trails; train; first-person... |
| 2 | French | traîner | to pull, drag; to lag behind, dawdle; to lie... |
| 3 | Vulgar Latin | traginare | present active infinitive of *traginō |
| 4 | Latin | tragēre | — |
| 5 | Latin | trahere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 6 | Latin | traho | I drag, pull; I trail; I extract, withdraw |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | traɣō | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | tregʰ- | to drag, pull?; to run, walk |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰregʰ- | to run |