The story
- Middle English · inherited fromtramplen
- English todaytrample
From Middle English tramplen, trampelen (“to walk heavily”), equivalent to tramp + -le. Cognate with Saterland Frisian trampelje (“to trample”), Dutch trampelen (“to trample”), German Low German trampeln (“to trample”), German trampeln (“to trample”).
Words from the same roots
Middle Englishtramplen all →
trounce
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.