Where does “vaulting” come from?
Vaulting comes from English vault, from Old French volte, from Italian voltare, from Latin volvere meaning "to turn," ultimately from Proto-Indo-European wel-.
vaulting (English): The practice of constructing vaults, or a...
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- The practice of constructing vaults, or a...
Ancestry of “vaulting”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | vault | An arched masonry structure supporting and... |
| 2 | Middle French | volter | to turn or spin around; to frolic |
| 3 | Italian | voltare | to turn; to flip; to make turn; to rotate |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | *volvitare | — |
| 5 | Latin | volvere | third-person plural perfect active indicative of... |
| 6 | Latin | volvo | I roll, tumble |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | welw- | hair, wool, grass, ear , forest; to turn, wind,... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | wēlH- | to roll, to undulate |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | welH- | to turn, to wind |