Trodden
/ˈtrɒd.ən/noun
Past participle of tread, meaning stepped on or walked over.
Did you know?Trodden comes from the same old Germanic root as **tread**, and its history preserves the strong-verb past participle pattern that once made English feel far more ancient and spell-like than it does today.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*tre-
“to step, tread”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*tradanan
“to tread, step”
Old English
OE
tredan
“to tread, step on”
Middle English
ME
troden
“trodden; stepped on”
Modern English
English
trodden
“past participle of tread”