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- Middle English · inherited frompranken“to prank”
- Middle English · inherited fromprancen
- English todayprance
From Middle English prancen, prauncen (“to prance”, literally “to show off”), variant of Middle English pranken (“to prank”), thus probably from the same ultimate root as prank. Cognate with Bavarian prangezen, prangssen (“to put on airs”), Alemannic German pranzen (“to strut”).
Words from the same roots
Middle Englishpranken all →
prankprink
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.