roquette
French
noun
Definitions
- rocket weapon
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French roquette borrowed from Italian rocchetta derived from rukka, rocko (spinning wheel) derived from Proto-Germanic *rukkô (used in spinning thread, a staff with flax fibres tied loosely to it, a distaff).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*rukkô
Gloss
used in spinning thread, a staff with flax fibres tied loosely to it, a distaff
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Rocketshipper English
- antirocket English
- chemical rocket English
- hybrid rocket English
- liquid rocket English
- retrorocket English
- rocket English
- rocket docket English
- rocket launcher English
- rocketborne English
- rocketeer English
- rocketer English
- rocketless English
- rocketlike English
- rocketman English
- rocketpunk English
- rocketry English
- rocketship English
- rocketsonde English
- roquette English
- searocket English
- skyrocket English
- solid rocket English
- turborocket English
- wall rocket English
- Rakete German
- rocchetta Italian
- antiroquette French
- roca Portuguese
- *rukkô Proto-Germanic
- ロケット Japanese
- rakett Norwegian Nynorsk
- rokkr Old Norse
- राकेट Hindi
- रॉकेट Hindi
- rocko Old High German
- raķete Latvian
- roket Turkish
- roket Malay
- Rakéit Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- roquette Middle French
- *rukka Gothic
- rukka Gothic
- ראַקעט Yiddish
- *rocko Old Dutch
- roketi Swahili
- 로켓 Korean
- រ៉ុកកែត Central Khmer
- راکٹ Urdu
- rukka, rocko lng