Rad

Signification

1. (neuter,strong) wheel
2. (neuter,strong) cartwheel
3. (abbreviation,alt-of,clipping,neuter,strong) Clipping of Fahrrad; bicycle

Genre

Neutre

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ʁaːt/

Étymologie

From Middle High German rat, from Old High German rad, from Proto-West Germanic *raþ, from Proto-Germanic *raþą, from Proto-Indo-European *Hret- (“to roll”).
Related to Swedish ratt (“steering wheel”) and Finnish ratti (“steering wheel”). Also related to English rotary and Spanish rueda (“wheel”), which descended from the same PIE root through Latin rota.