proot

Origin uncertain; compare the earlier proo.

• IPA^(key): /pɹuːt/

proot

1. A command to a donkey or mule to move faster.
   • 1879 June, Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, London: C. Kegan Paul & Company, OCLC 904539439, page 18:

     [He] taught me the true cry or masonic word of donkey-drivers, ‘Proot!’

   • 1917, Charles S. Brooks, There's Pippins and Cheese to Come, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, OCLC 765186, page 38:

     The window is handed in [to a wicker carriage]. Her feet are wound around with comforters against a draft... Her ample bag of knitting is safe aboard... Proot! The donkey starts.

• Porto, Proto, Troop, porto-, proto, proto-, troop, tropo-

• Brod

From Old High German brōt, from Proto-Germanic *braudą.

proot

1. bread