It's the same root as in *kWe-kWl-o- 'wheel', but *kWel- meant 'go round
in circles', not 'turn' in the sense you suggest. With so many languages
at your fingertips you should know that Latin colare means 'cultivate,
tend, attend to'. It may also mean 'till', but the original sense was
'go about/around sth'. Piotr
Piotr, it's not colare AFAIK, but colere (cultura etc.).
Marc
Gerry here: I have a question for Marc and Piotr. If the root in
question has the meaning of wheel in the sense of going around in
circles, the meaning of tilling or cultivating (i.e. agricola which is
*masculine*) and cultura (possibly in the sense of *culture*) is there a
connection in meaning between wheel and culture? And I'm reminded of
the 4 wheeled wagon from Bronocice with a very early date (circa 3200
BC). This mosaic is beginning to form. What interpretations do you
give to it.
Gerry
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