Etymology

coachwheel

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Today it means: A cartwheel, the wheel of a horse-drawn coach Full definition →

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

  1. Proto-Indo-European*pekʷ-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*pékʷeti
  3. Proto-Italic*kʷekʷō
  4. Latin*quoquō
  5. Latincoquō
  6. Late Latincoquus
  7. Proto-West Germanic*kok
  8. Old High Germanchoch
  9. Middle High Germankoch
  10. GermanKoch
  11. HungarianKoch
  12. HungarianKocs
  13. Hungariankocsi
  14. GermanKutsche
  15. Middle Frenchcoche
  16. Englishcoach
  17. Proto-Indo-European*kʷelh₁-redup.
  18. Proto-Indo-European*kʷekʷléh₂
  19. Proto-Germanic*hweulō
  20. Old Englishhwēol
  21. Middle Englishwhel
  22. Englishwheel
  23. English todaycoachwheel

From coach + wheel.

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