velum.
sail, covering; curtain; [vela vento dare => sail away];
Meaning & usage
a cloth, covering, curtain, veil, awning
the sail of a ship
the soft palate
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weg- Proto-Indo-European *wegslomder.? Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-der.? Proto-Italic *wekslom Latin vēlum From Proto-Italic *wekslom (note the Latin term's diminutive form vēxillum, as in pālus > pāxillus), which lends credence to this reconstruction), with two competing theories: * From Proto-Indo-European *wegslom, from *weg- (“to weave, bind”). Cognate with English wick, Welsh gweu (“to weave”). * Others refer it to *weǵʰ- (“to ride”), thus "that which propels"; in this case, cognate with Proto-Slavic *veslo (“oar”). This is semantically less attractive than the above theory.
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