tronk

English

noun

Definitions

(South Africa) A prison.

Etymology

Borrowed from Afrikaans tronk derived from Dutch, Flemish tronk (prison, stocks, dungeon) derived from Portuguese tronco (block, prison, dungeon, trunk) derived from Latin truncus (trunk, a stock, lopped tree trunk).

Origin

Latin

truncus

Gloss

trunk, a stock, lopped tree trunk

Timeline

Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms

*troncionem Latin
truncus Latin
tronco Italian
tronk Dutch, Flemish
tronc French
*twerḱ- Proto-Indo-European
tronco Portuguese
tronc Old French
trunko Esperanto
tronc Catalan, Valencian
tronco Galician
tronc Middle Dutch
tronk Afrikaans
तुरुंग Marathi
tronc Friulian
tronc Dalmatian