Where does “trucaj” come from?
trucaj (Romanian) comes from French trucage, from French truquer, from French truc, from Middle French truc, from Old French trut, from Old Occitan truc, from Old Occitan trucar, from Vulgar Latin trudicare — to push, to thrust.
trucaj (Romanian): rigging
Definitions
- rigging
Ancestry of “trucaj”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | trucage | rigging, doctoring; special effects |
| 2 | French | truquer | to tamper with, to fiddle, to falsify; to trick;... |
| 3 | French | truc | procedure, technique; thingamajig, thingy, thing;... |
| 4 | Middle French | truc | trick; deception |
| 5 | Old French | trut | trick |
| 6 | Old Occitan | truc | hit; strike |
| 7 | Old Occitan | trucar | to hit; to strike |
| 8 | Vulgar Latin | trudicare | — |
| 9 | Latin | trudere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 10 | Latin | trudo | I thrust, push or shove |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | troudō | thrust |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | trewd- | to push, to thrust |