Re: Odp: Glen acknowledges Agricola as masculine, Mea culpa

From: Marc Verhaegen
Message: 1060
Date: 2000-01-22

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