English

Rockwall

From rock + wall, after subterranean rock walls found when digging wells.

Formed from rock + wall

Old English *rocc

Middle English rocke ‘rock formation’

English rock

Proto-Indo-European *welH- ‘to turn’

Latin vallum ‘wall’

Proto-West Germanic *wall ‘wall’

Old English weall ‘wall’

Middle English wal

English wall

Today it means

name A city, the county seat of Rockwall County, Texas, United States.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Rockwall