Etymology

rockwheel

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Today it means: A toothed wheel used to excavate trenches. Full definition →

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

  1. Medieval Latinroccabor.?
  2. Old English*rocc
  3. Early Medieval Latinrocca
  4. Anglo-Normanroque
  5. Middle Englishrokke
  6. Englishrock
  7. Proto-Indo-European*kʷelh₁-redup.
  8. Proto-Indo-European*kʷekʷléh₂
  9. Proto-Germanic*hweulō
  10. Old Englishhwēol
  11. Middle Englishwhel
  12. Englishwheel
  13. English todayrockwheel

From rock + wheel.

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