Talk:travois

@Sgconlaw Per the FEW entry cited under tripalium, the French travail, in the specific sense of 'device for detaining horses', is a direct inheritance (in fact the only one) of the Late Latin noun, and not some kind of convoluted evolution from the deverbal of the verb meaning 'torture'. Nicodene (talk) 15:45, 29 July 2023 (UTC)

@Sgconlaw? Nicodene (talk) 12:03, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

@Nicodene: I had relied on "fr:travail", which provided one etymology for all senses of the French word. However, I looked at the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française (8th edition) reference referred to in that entry and it does derive the word in question directly from tripalium, so I will update the etymology accordingly. — Sgconlaw (talk) 20:54, 8 August 2023 (UTC)