hweol
Old English
Alternative forms
- hweohl, hweogul, hweogol, hweowul, hweowol, weogl, wiogl, hƿēol
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *hweulō (plural of Proto-Germanic *hwehwlą) (compare Old Frisian hwēl, Old Saxon hwiol, Old Norse hvél, hjól, whence Danish hjul), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷléh₂, plural of *kʷekʷlóm, *kʷékʷlos (“wheel”) (compare Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos, “cycle, wheel”)), from *kʷel- (“going around”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʍeːol/
Noun
hwēol n
- wheel
Descendants
- Middle English: whele, whel, qweel
- Scots: quhel, quhele, quheil, quheile, wheel
- English: wheel