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how is tread related to trade?
by fuzztester 2y ago
how is tread related to trade?
- o11c 2y agoIt looks like "trade" changed meaning significantly between Middle English and now, even though they only converge all the way back in Proto-Indo-European. ModE tread < MidE treden < OE tredan < PWG *tredan < PG *trudaną < PIE *dreh₂ ModE trade < MidE trade (meaning "track") < MLG trade < OSax trada < PG *tradō < PIE *dreh₂ Also possibly related, assuming we merge the PID *dre_ variants which all have similar meanings: tramp[le] trap (something that gets stepped on) dromedary palindrome (run back again) ? troll ? dorm (allegedly there's an old "sleep" meaning with the same spelling - this is unrelated to "dream, draugr" which means "deceive" though!)