The story
- Proto-Indo-European · derived from*terh₁-“to rub, to turn, to pierce, to drill”
- translingual · borrowed fromTerebratula
- English todayterebratula
Borrowed from translingual Terebratula. Further from Latin terebrātus (“boring, drilling”) + Latin -ula (diminutive suffix), from terebrō (“to bore, to drill”), terebra (“borer, drill, gimlet”), and terō (“to rub, to wear upon”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, to turn, to pierce, to drill”).
Words from the same roots
Proto-Indo-European*terh₁- all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.