Proto-Indo-European

*kʷékʷlos

‘circle, wheel’

Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos.

21 English words in this record descend from Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos, most familiar first.

• cycle ← cicle ← cyclus ← κύκλος ← *kúklos
• wheel ← whel ← hwēol ← *hweulu ← *hwehwlą
• bicycle ← cycle ← cyclus ← κύκλος ← *kúklos
• wheeler ← whelere ← whel ← hwēol ← *hweulu
• chakra ← चक्र ← चक्र ← *ćakrám ← *čakrám
• cyclic ← cyclique ← cyclique ← cyclicus ← κυκλῐκός
• tricycle ← cycle ← cyclus ← κύκλος ← *kúklos
• encyclical ← ἐγκύκλιος ← κύκλος ← *kúklos
• kike ← קײַקל ← κύκλος ← *kúklos
• cyclamen ← cyclamīnos ← κῠκλᾰ́μῑνος ← κύκλος ← *kúklos
• chakram ← चक्र ← *ćakrám ← *čakrám
• charkha ← چرخ ← 𐫝𐫍𐫡 ← *čaxrám ← *čakrám

More words from *kʷékʷlos

• hackery
• chukker
• anacyclosis
• anacyclic
• bicyclette
• bicicletta
• chakli
• cyclus
• tetracycle

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos