Noun: wortel
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:
| Sg. | wortel |
| Pl. | wortels; wortelen |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like wortel
busmeester,
scalar,
grondbeginsel,
comptoir,
moordwapen,
vluchtheuvel,
boetiek,
boutiek,
bestevader,
baaierd,
Assassijn,
spadassijn,
familiewapen,
alantswortel,
precursor,
veldteken,
processor,
aasvogel,
portier,
hogepriester, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle Dutch wortele, from Old Dutch *wurtala, from Proto-Germanic *wurt- (“root”) + *waluz (“stick”), formed from the Proto-Indo-European roots *wréh₂ds + *welH-.
2. The mathematical sense was coined by Simon Stevin. Compare German Wurzel, Low German Wuddel, Wortel, West Frisian woartel, Old English wyrtwalu; cf. also English wort. See: German Nouns '
Wurzel', Old English Nouns '
wyrtwalu'.
Verbs referencing "wortel"
German Nouns
Wurzel.
Translations