Etymology

printwheel

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Today it means: In early printers, a disk bearing impressions of characters around its rim; these are struck against the page to produce text. Full definition →

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

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

From print + wheel.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.