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Wheel English Ton Round Source Dutch Swedish Root

正面 2010.wheel
英 [wiːl]美 [wil]

背面
释义:
n. 车轮;方向盘;转动vt. 转动;使变换方向;给…装轮子vi. 旋转;突然转变方向;盘旋飞行
例句:
1. He spun the steering-wheel so that we yawed from side to side.他急速打着舵轮,把我们搞得摇来晃去的。

1. ton- "sound, tone, accent" + -e.2. ton- "stretch" + -e.3. 由声调扩展、宽泛化到绘画中的色调,其实色调、声调都是有本意“stretch”引申而来。4. tongue => tone => tune.
wheel 轮子来自古英语hweol,轮子,来自PIE*kwel,转,圈,词源同cycle,collar。引申义轮子。
wheelwheel: [OE] A wheel is etymologically simply something that ‘goes round’. It is a member of a large family of words that goes back to Indo- European *qweqwlo-, which was derived from *qwelo- ‘go round’. Other members include Greek kúklos ‘circle’ (source of English cycle), Sanskrit cakrá- ‘circle, wheel’ (source of English chukker), Serbo-Croat and Czech kolo ‘wheel’, and Russian koleso ‘wheel’. Its prehistoric Germanic descendant was *khwekhula, which evolved into Dutch wiel, Swedish and Danish hjul, and English wheel.=> chukker, cycle, encyclopediawheel (n.)Old English hweol, hweogol "wheel," from Proto-Germanic *hwewlaz- (cognates: Old Norse hvel, Old Swedish hiughl, Old Frisian hwel, Middle Dutch weel), from PIE *kw(e)-kwl-o- "wheel, circle," suffixed, reduplicated form of root *kwel- (1) (see cycle (n.)). The root wegh-, "to convey, especially by wheeled vehicle," is found in virtually every branch of Indo-European, including now Anatolian. The root, as well as other widely represented roots such as aks- and nobh-, attests to the presence of the wheel -- and vehicles using it -- at the time Proto-Indo-European was spoken. [Watkins, p. 96] Figurative sense is early 14c. Wheel of fortune attested from early 15c. Slang wheels "a car" is recorded from 1959. Wheeler-dealer is from 1954, a rhyming elaboration of dealer.wheel (v.)"to turn like a wheel," c. 1200, from wheel (n.); transitive sense attested from late 14c. Related: Wheeled; wheeling."

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