Etymology

trolleybus

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English bus ← French omnibus ← Latin omnibu
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic*truzlōną
  2. Middle High Germantrollen
  3. Old Frenchtroller
  4. Middle Englishtrollen
  5. Englishtroll
  6. Englishtrolley
  7. Proto-Indo-European*h₃ep-
  8. Proto-Italic*opnis
  9. Latinomnis
  10. Latinomnibu
  11. Frenchomnibus
  12. Englishomnibusclip.
  13. Englishbus
  14. English todaytrolleybus

From trolley + bus.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.