Etymology

bucketwheel

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Today it means: An excavator having a series of bucket-shaped scoops on a rotating wheel or belt Full definition →

English wheel ← Middle English whel ← Old English hwēol
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The story

  1. Middle Englishboket
  2. Englishbucket
  3. Proto-Indo-European*kʷelh₁-redup.
  4. Proto-Indo-European*kʷekʷléh₂
  5. Proto-Germanic*hweulō
  6. Old Englishhwēol
  7. Middle Englishwhel
  8. Englishwheel
  9. English todaybucketwheel

From bucket + wheel.

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