Word Origin Summary

Trousers is attested in English. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. triubhasMiddle Irishderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• treabhsar

  Irish · borrowed from

• tharrawurra

  Gamilaraay · borrowed from

• jedo̧ujij

  Marshallese · borrowed from

• trowsus

  Welsh · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

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• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root