Etymology

krautrock

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Today it means: A genre of German experimental rock music from the 1970s. Full definition →

English rock ← Middle English rollen ← Old French roeler
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The story

  1. GermanKraut
  2. EnglishKraut
  3. Middle Englishrokken
  4. Englishrock
  5. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ent-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*h₂énts
  7. Proto-Indo-European*h₂énti
  8. Proto-Germanic*andi
  9. Old Englishand
  10. Middle Englishand
  11. Englishand
  12. Proto-Indo-European*Hreth₂-
  13. Proto-Indo-European*Hróth₂eh₂
  14. Proto-Italic*rotā
  15. Latinrota
  16. Latinrotula
  17. Latinrotulāre
  18. Old Frenchroeler
  19. Middle Englishrollen
  20. Englishroll
  21. Englishrock and rollellip.
  22. Englishrock
  23. English todaykrautrock

From Kraut (“German”) + rock.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.