Rad

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Meaning

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

Frequency

Gender

Neuter

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ʁaːt/

Etymology

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.