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It looks like "trade" changed meaning significantly between Middle English and now, even though they only converge all the way back in Proto-Indo-European.

ModE tread < MidE treden < OE tredan < PWG *tredan < PG *trudaną < PIE *dreh₂

ModE trade < MidE trade (meaning "track") < MLG trade < OSax trada < PG *tradō < PIE *dreh₂

Also possibly related, assuming we merge the PID *dre_ variants which all have similar meanings:

  tramp[le]
  trap (something that gets stepped on)
  dromedary
  palindrome (run back again)
  ? troll
  ? dorm (allegedly there's an old "sleep" meaning with the same spelling - this is unrelated to "dream, draugr" which means "deceive" though!)





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