arrel

• rel
• raïl (archaic or dialectal)

Epenthetic form of rel, monophthongized from raïl, from an earlier Old Catalan raïu (through hypercorrection), from Latin rādīcem, from Proto-Italic *wrādīks, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əˈrɛl]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [aˈrɛl]

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arrel f (plural arrels)

1. root (of a plant)
2. root; origin
3. (mathematics) root

• arran

• “arrel” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• “arrel”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007