Etymology

ruche

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Today it means: A strip of fabric which has been fluted or pleated. Full definition →

French ruche ← Middle French rusche ← Old French rusche
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*Hrew-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₃rewk-
  3. Proto-Celtic*rukskos
  4. Proto-Celtic*rūskos
  5. Gaulishrūsca
  6. Early Medieval Latinrusca
  7. Old Frenchrusche
  8. Middle Frenchrusche
  9. Frenchruche
  10. English todayruche

Borrowed from French ruche, from Middle French rusche, from Old French rusche, from Early Medieval Latin rusca (“bark”), borrowed from Gaulish rūsca, from Proto-Celtic *rūskos (“bark”), from *rukskos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rewk- (“to dig up”), from *Hrew- (“to tear out, dig out”).

Words from the same roots

Frenchruche all →

rush

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