Etymograph

English

tutulus

Tutulus comes from Latin tutulus ‘a high headdress, formed by plaiting the hair…’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- ‘to swell’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*tewh₂-1‘to swell’reconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtutulus2‘a high headdress, formed by plaiting the hair in a cone over the forehead’
  3. Englishtodaytutulus2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin tutulus
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English tutulus

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*tewh₂-Wiktionary, Latin tutulus‘to swell’reconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtutulusWiktionary, English tutulus‘a high headdress, formed by plaiting the hair in a cone over the forehead’
  3. EnglishtodaytutulusWiktionary, English tutulus

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- ‘to swell’

butter, tomb, tumor, soma, tumour, truffle, trifle, tyrosine, tuff, tumultuous, tuber, madrasa, tumult, turgid, tufa, 42 more

Today it means

noun A conical Etruscan headdress for women.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “tutulus”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Latin tutulus. 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.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- / tutulus

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