Row

Morpheme

Row

Type

bound base

Denotation

wheel, ring

Etymology

Middle English rowel, rowell; Old French roel; Latin rotella, from rota

Evidence

rowel, roweled, roweling, rowelled, rowelling, rowels

Notes

<l> need not double (but can), especially with inflectional suffixes
rowel and rotella are doublets

See Also

Rote, Round, Role, Rol(l) [Roll, Rol], Rode, -el

Homographs

Row, Row, Row