>>>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
("Colare" means "to sieve", derived from "colum", perhaps from the same
root: what has to be sieved must go round.)
>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? .... Gerry
Perhaps the connection is this: going round on a field in circles (eg, for
sowing) is bringing it in culture? or else: did the Romans have wheeled
ploughs? No doubt Piotr will know.
Marc