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- Proto-Indo-European*dʰregʰ-der.?
- Latintrahō
- Latintrāgula
- Vulgar Latin*tragulāre
- Old Frenchtrailler
- Middle Englishtrailen
- English todaytrail
From Middle English trailen, from Old French trailler (“to tow; pick up the scent of a quarry”), from Vulgar Latin *tragulāre (“to drag”), from Latin tragula (“dragnet, javelin thrown by a strap”), probably related to Latin trahere (“to pull, drag along”).
Words from the same roots
Latintragula all →
trawl
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.