brouette

wheelbarrow; barrow (small vehicle used to carry a load and pulled or pushed by hand)

Related: brouettée, brouetter, tabarouette, brouette espagnole

Inherited from Middle French brouette, from Old French baroueste (“barrow, dumper with one wheel”), diminutive of barot (“barrow”), from Frankish *barwā, *barwijā (“barrow”), from Proto-Germanic *barwijǭ, *barwǭ (“barrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to carry, bear”). Compare Picard barou (“barrow”), Franco-Provençal barotte (“barrow”), Bourguignon barrô (“barrow”), Italian baroccio (“cart”) from the same Germanic source. Cognate with Middle Dutch berie (“barrow”), Middle High German bere