wiel

From Dutch wiel.

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wiel (plural wiele)

1. wheel

From Middle Dutch wiel, from Old Dutch *wiol, from Proto-West Germanic *hwehwl, from Proto-Germanic *hwehwlą, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷekʷlóm, *kʷékʷlos.

• IPA^(key): /ʋil/

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• Hyphenation: wiel
• Rhymes: -il
• Homophone: Wiel

wiel n (plural wielen, diminutive wieltje n or wieletje n)

1. wheel

   Synonym: rad (see there for notes)

• Afrikaans: wiel
• Negerhollands: wiel, wil
• → Caribbean Javanese: wil
• → Papiamentu: wil
• → Sranan Tongo: wiri

wiel

1. second-person singular imperative of wielen

From Old Dutch *wiol, from Proto-West Germanic *hwehwl, from Proto-Germanic *hwehwlą, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷekʷlóm, *kʷékʷlos.

wiel n

1. wheel

   Synonym: rat

• weel

• Dutch: wiel
  • Afrikaans: wiel
  • Negerhollands: wiel, wil
  • → Caribbean Javanese: wil
  • → Papiamentu: wil
  • → Sranan Tongo: wiri
• Limburgish: weel
• → Old Frisian: wēl
  • West Frisian: wiele

Related to Old English wœ̄l (“pool, whirlpool”), West Frisian wiel, from Proto-West Germanic *wallōn (“to roll”), or perhaps *wallijan (“to well up”), both from the same ultimate source.

wiel m

2. maelstrom, vortex, bottomless spiral
3. hole caused by a break in a dyke

• Dutch: wiel

• “wiel (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “wiel (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “wiel (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “wiel (III)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page III