trébuchet

From Middle French trébuchet, from Old French trebuchet, trebuket (“a trap”), from trebuchier (“to overthrow, topple”), from tre- + *buchier, from Old French buc (“trunk of the body”), from Old Frankish *būk (“belly, trunk, torso”), from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly, abdomen, trunk”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰōw- (“to blow, swell”). Cognate with Old High German būh (“belly”), Old English būc (“belly, trunk”). More at bouk.

• IPA^(key): /tʁe.by.ʃɛ/

trébuchet m (plural trébuchets)

1. trebuchet

• “trébuchet” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).