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

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