Etymograph

English

rolloff

Deverbal from roll off.

A compound of roll + off

Latin rota ‘wheel’

Latin rotula ‘a little wheel’

Medieval Latin rotulāre ‘to roll; to revolve’

Old French roller

Middle English rollen

English roll

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep

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Proto-West Germanic *ab

Old English æf ‘of’

Old English of ‘from’

Middle English of

English off

Today it means

adj Able to be rolled off (and later, rolled back onto) the bed of a flatbed truck (flatbed lorry) in a motorized way, using a winch and cable.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “rolloff”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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