Etymology

truckload

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Today it means: The contents of a full truck or lorry. Full definition →

English load ← Middle English trokel ← Anglo-Norman trocle
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The story

  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. Englishtruck
  11. Englishload
  12. English todaytruckload

From truck + load.

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