Manlik

Tross

Betekenis (Engels)

  1. (masculine, strong) baggage train (a unit’s supply vehicles and the troops resonsible for them)
  2. (figuratively, masculine, strong) group or column of people moving somewhere
  3. (especially, masculine, strong) entourage, escort, group of accompanying associates

Dialekte

Kanton Basel-Land

Kanton Basel-Land

dross

Data verskaf deur: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Uitgespreek as (IPA)
/tʁɔs/
Etimologie (Engels)

In summary

Inherited from Middle High German trosse (“baggage”), from Old French trosse, trousse (“package, bundle”). The semantic development from “baggage” to “those who move the baggage” occurred around 1500. Cognate with English truss, which see.

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