truck

truck · noun, verb¹

1. Proto-Indo-European*dʰregʰ-
2. Proto-Indo-European*drem-influ.
3. Ancient Greekτρέχω (trékhō)
4. Ancient Greekτροχῐ́λος (trokhĭ́los)
5. Ancient Greekτροχῐλείᾱ (trokhĭleíā)
6. Medieval Latintrochlea
7. Anglo-Normantrocle
8. Middle Englishtrokel
9. Englishtruckle?
10. English todaytruck

Perhaps a shortening of truckle, related to Latin trochus (“iron hoop, wheel”) from Ancient Greek τροχός (trokhós).

truck · verb²

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*der-“to flay, split”
2. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*derew-
3. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*trokōn“to fail, miss, lack”
4. Old English · inherited fromtrucian“to fail, run short, deceive, disappoint”
5. Middle English · inherited fromtruken
6. English todaytruck

From Middle English truken, troken, trukien, from Old English trucian (“to fail, run short, deceive, disappoint”), from Proto-West Germanic *trokōn (“to fail, miss, lack”), from Proto-Indo-European *derew-, *derwu- (“to tear, wrap, reap”), from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to flay, split”). Cognate with Middle Low German troggelen (“to cheat, deceive, swindle”), Dutch troggelen (“to extort”), German dialectal truggeln (“to flatter, fawn”).

truck · verb³

1. North Germanic · derived from
2. English todaytruck

From dialectal truck, truk, trokk, probably of North Germanic origin, compare Norwegian dialectal trokka, trakka (“to stamp, trample, go to and fro”), Danish trykke (“to press, press down, crush, squeeze”), Swedish trycka. More at thrutch.

truck · verb, noun⁴

1. Frankish · derived from*trokan
2. Latin · derived fromtrocāre
3. Middle English · inherited fromtrukien
4. English todaytruck

From Middle English trukien, from unrecorded Anglo-Norman and Old French words, from Latin trocāre, from Frankish *trokan. Related to Etymology 2.

Words from the same roots

First known use, by meaning

• 1960s To travel, to proceed.
• from 1960s To persist, to endure.