Word Origin Summary

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

Descendants and Related Terms

• 拖拉庫

  Mandarin Chinese · borrowed from

• tozako

  Yami · derived from

• taraku

  Chuukese · borrowed from

• トラック

  Japanese · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root