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==Etymology==
− It is Middle English trunke, tronke, from Anglo-French trunke, [[bor|fro|tronc|t=alms box; trunk of a tree or body]],^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)^(Hoad 1986) from Latin truncus, the trunk of a tree or of the body, a wooden block, originally an adjective, mutilated, cut off, of uncertain origin.^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024)
+ It is [[inh|enm|trunke]], tronke, from [[xno|trunke]], [[bor|fro|tronc|t=alms box; trunk of a tree or body]],^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)^(Hoad 1986) from [[la|truncus]], the trunk of a tree or of the body, a wooden block, originally an adjective, mutilated, cut off, of uncertain origin.^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024)
==Earliest recorded meaning==