Etymograph

English

rotal

Rotal comes from Latin rotālis ‘wheeled, turning’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *Hreth₂- ‘to run, roll’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*Hreth₂-‘to run, roll’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*Hróth₂-eh₂reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*rotāreconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CErota‘wheel’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CErotālis‘wheeled, turning’
  6. Englishtodayrotal

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*Hreth₂-‘to run, roll’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*Hróth₂-eh₂reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*rotāreconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CErota‘wheel’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CErotālis‘wheeled, turning’
  6. Englishtodayrotal

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *Hreth₂- ‘to run, roll’

rash, rotate, 14 more

through Latin rota ‘wheel’

roll, rotation, rodeo, rotary, rueda, rotund, rotavirus, 12 more

Another origin of rotal

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CERota‘an ecclesiastical appellate court in the Catholic Church’
  2. Englishtodayrotal

Today it means

adj Of or relating to wheels.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *Hreth₂- / rotal

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