English
printwheel
From print + wheel.
Latin imprimō ‘to press into, imprint’
Middle English emprinten ‘to impress, imprint’
Middle English *printen
English print
Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos ‘wheel’
Proto-Germanic *hwehwlą ‘wheel’
Proto-Germanic *hweulō ‘wheels (plural of *hwehwlą)’
Old English hwēol ‘wheel’
Middle English whel ‘wheel’
English wheel
Today it means
noun In early printers, a disk bearing impressions of characters around its rim; these are struck against the page to produce text.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / printwheel