axle
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English axel, axle, eaxle, from Old English eaxl (“shoulder, armpit”), from Proto-West Germanic *ahslu (“shoulder”), from Proto-Germanic *ahslō (“shoulder”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱs-l-eh₂, from *h₂eḱs- (“axis, axle”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian acsle (“shoulder”), Dutch oksel (“armpit”), German Achsel (“armpit”), Swedish axel (“shoulder”), Latin axilla (“armpit”), Latin axis (“axle”), Greek άξονας (áxonas, “axle”), Sanskrit अक्ष (ákṣa, “axle”), Sanskrit कक्ष (kakṣá, “room, armpit”), Russian ось (osʹ, “axle”). Doublet of axis.
NounEdit
axle (plural axles)
Etymology 2Edit
From Middle English axil, in turn a combination of Old English eax and Old Norse ǫxull.
NounEdit
axle (plural axles)
- The pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel.
- A transverse bar or shaft connecting the opposite wheels of a car or carriage; an axletree.
- (geometry, astronomy, archaic) An axis.
- the Sun's axle
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See alsoEdit
- axle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Axle in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
AnagramsEdit
Middle EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old English eaxl.
NounEdit
axle
- Alternative form of axel
Etymology 2Edit
A conflation of Old English eax and Old Norse ǫxull.
NounEdit
axle
- Alternative form of axil