Etymology

wheelbench

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Today it means: The seat for the driver that sits above the wheels in a wagon that is drawn by draft animals such as horses or oxen. Full definition →

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

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

From wheel + bench.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.