Rad

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Meaning

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

Synonyms

Rover

Zweirad

Bike

Wagenrad

Luftreifen

runde Scheibe

Komplettbereifung

Komplettreifen

Bereifung

Kreisscheibe

Radspur

Frequency

B2
Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

raad

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

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.

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