Etymograph

English

alula

Alula comes from Latin ala ‘wing’, from axis ‘an axletree of wagon, car, chariot’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱs- ‘axle, axis’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂eḱs-‘axle, axis’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*aksisreconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEaxis‘an axletree of wagon, car, chariot’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CE*axlareconstructed
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEala‘wing’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 2017alula

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂eḱs-‘axle, axis’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*aksisreconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEaxis‘an axletree of wagon, car, chariot’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CE*axlareconstructed
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEala‘wing’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 2017alula

Earliest quotation: 2017, Hanneke Meijer: “On the wing, even the tiny “thumb feather” or…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱs- ‘axle, axis’

axle, atelier, axon, 11 more

through Proto-Italic *aksis

axes, 11 more

through Latin axis ‘an axletree of wagon, car, chariot’

axis, axe, 11 more

through Latin ala ‘wing’

aisle, ala, 10 more

Another origin of alula

  1. HawaiianmodernʻŌlulu
  2. Englishtodayalula

Today it means

noun A small projection of three or four feathers on the first digit of the wing on some birds.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱs- / alula

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