The story
- Dutch · derived frompronken“to show off, be flamboyant”
- Afrikaans · borrowed frompronk“to show off, strut, or prance”
- English todaypronk
From Afrikaans pronk (“to show off, strut, or prance”), from Dutch pronken (“to show off, be flamboyant”). See also prank.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.