Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tronk

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: tronk
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Example Sentences

"It must here be explained that the tronk, or jail, is the general receptacle, not only of convicted criminals, but of such Hottentots or slaves as are found, improperly or illegally wandering about the country […]"
"The diary of another settler, who had been wrongfully imprisoned in the Tronk, and described the daily life there in no uncertain terms […]"
"It was built, as far as I can discover, because the Cape Argus rightly denounced the overcrowding of the old "tronk" on the waterfront."

Etymology

Borrowed from Afrikaans tronk, from Dutch tronk, from Portuguese tronco, from Latin truncus. Doublet of truncus and trunk.

Origin

Source language: Dutch

Word Breakdown

Root: *twerḱ-, tronk, tronco, truncus

Inflected Forms

tronks (plural)

Questions

What does tronk mean?: A prison.
Where does tronk come from?: It is traced to Dutch.

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