tru·an·cy /ˈtro͞oənsē/
noun the action of staying away from school without good reason; absenteeism. "he had a history of truancy and expulsion from school"
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From Middle English truant, truand, trewande, trowant (= Middle Dutch trouwant, trawant, truwant), from Old French truand, truant (“a vagabond, beggar, rogue", also "beggarly, roguish”), of Celtic origin, perhaps from Gaulish *trugan, or from Breton truan (“wretched”), from Proto-Celtic *térh₁-tro-m, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁-.
if people would stop assuming that things reference the version of the english language that they are familiar with, that would be cool.
^^ This guy etymologizes ^^