newel · noun1
- Late Latin · derived fromnucālis“nut-like”
- Early Medieval Latin · derived fromnōdellus“buckle”
- Old French · derived fromnoel
- Middle English · inherited fromnowel
- English todaynewel
Inherited from Middle English nowel, *newel, from Old French noel, from either Early Medieval Latin nōdellus (“buckle”, diminutive of nōdus "knot") or Late Latin nucālis (“nut-like”, derivative of nux "nut"). Doublet of noil and noyau.
newel · noun2
Words from the same roots
Middle Englishnowel all →
noelnowell
Old Frenchnoel all →
noelnowellnoyau
Early Medieval Latinnōdellus all →
noyaunoil
Late Latinnucālis all →
noyaunoil
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.