Where does “bedroll” come from?
I can't write this etymology with confidence because the chain provided appears corrupted or incorrect. Latin "rotula" and "rota" (meaning "wheel") don't plausibly connect to English "bed" or "bedroll." A bedroll is a bundle of bedding, which should derive from "bed" (sleeping furniture), not from wheel-related Latin roots.
Could you verify the chain? A reliable etymology would trace bedroll → bed + roll, with "bed" coming from Old English "bedd" and "roll" from Old French "rolle."
bedroll (English): A roll of bedding that can be carried when hiking...
Definitions
- A roll of bedding that can be carried when hiking...
Ancestry of “bedroll”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | bed | A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on... |
| 2 | Middle English | bed | — |
| 3 | Old English | bedd | bed |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | badi | bed |
| 5 | Persian | بدی | — |
| 6 | Persian | بد | bad; not good; evil; poorly, badly |
| 7 | Middle Persian | 𐭯𐭥𐭭 | to; at; in |
| 8 | Proto-Iranian | pati- | against, toward; lord |
| 9 | Proto-Iranian | *rādi- | — |
| 10 | Proto-Iranian | *rād- | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | HraHdʰ- | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | Hreh₁dʰ- | to think; to arrange; to succeed, accomplish |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂reh₁- | to think, reason; to arrange |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂er- | to fit, to fix, to put together |