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Truc comes from Catalan truc ‘trick’, from Spanish truco ‘gimmick, ploy’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *trewd- ‘to push, to thrust’.

1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*trewd-‘to push, to thrust’reconstructed
2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*troudō‘to thrust’reconstructed
3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtrūdō‘shove’
4. Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CE*trūdicāre‘shove, strike’reconstructed
5. Old Occitanc. 950–1500trucar‘to hit’
6. Old Occitan, derivedc. 950–1500truc‘hit’
7. Old Frenchc. 842–1400trut‘trick’
8. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600truc‘trick’
9. Frenchc. 1600–presentsame form‘trick’
10. Spanishc. 1500–presenttruco‘gimmick, ploy’
11. Catalanc. 1500–presenttruc‘trick’
12. EnglishtodayTruc