English

handroll

From hand + roll.

A compound of hand + roll

Proto-Germanic *handuz

Proto-West Germanic *handu

Old English hand

Middle English hond

English hand

Latin rota ‘wheel’

Latin rotula ‘a little wheel’

Medieval Latin rotulāre ‘to roll; to revolve’

Old French roller

Middle English rollen

English roll

Today it means

noun A piece of sushi in the form of a cone of seaweed filled with rice, fish, vegetables etc.

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

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