Etymograph

English

felloe

Felloe comes from Middle English felwe ‘a felloe or felly’, and goes back to Proto-Germanic *felgō.

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*felgō‘felly, outer rim of a wheel’reconstructed
  2. Old Englishc. 450–1150felg‘harrow, felloe’
  3. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500felwe‘a felloe or felly’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1971felloe

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*felgō‘felly, outer rim of a wheel’reconstructed
  2. Old Englishc. 450–1150felg‘harrow, felloe’
  3. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500felwe‘a felloe or felly’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1971felloe

Earliest quotation: 1971, George Ewart Evans, Tools of Their Trades: An Oral History of Men at Work c. 190: “Then came putting on the felloes and what we…”

Every English word from Proto-Germanic *felgō

Today it means

noun The rim of a wooden wheel, supported by the spokes.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Germanic *felgō / felloe

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