Etymograph

English

abstrude

Abstrude comes from Latin abstrūdō ‘push away, hide’, from Proto-Italic *troudō ‘to thrust’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *trewd-.

  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‘thrust, push, shove’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEabstrūdō‘push away, hide’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1773abstrude

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  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‘thrust, push, shove’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEabstrūdō‘push away, hide’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1773abstrude

Earliest quotation: 1773, Thomas Patten, A Letter to the Right Honourable the Lord North: “Thus it is with regard to the elementary substance…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *trewd- ‘to push, to thrust’

threat, thrust, protrusion, protrude, 10 more

through Latin trūdō ‘thrust, push, shove’

extrusion, intrude, 9 more

Today it means

verb To thrust away.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *trewd- / abstrude

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