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Probably originally a root aorist, present singular *tred-, non-singular *trud-, from a possible Pre-Germanic*dret-, which could theoretically be an extension ofProto-Indo-European*dr-(“to run”), compare*drem-(“to run, sleep”) and*dreh₂-(“to run”) (the latter whenceSanskritद्रा(drā,“to run, make haste”)).[1] Akin toProto-Slavic*dьrtěti(“to degrade, to age”).
*trudaną
The present tense has the zero grade vowel -u- rather than -e-. The past participle might have had either.
The West Germanic descendants have regularised the ablaut of this verb by replacing the-u- with-e-. However, the Medieval Latin loanwordtrot(t)ō suggests that the original vocalism may have been retained in some High German varieties.