Wallow

  • 131well — English has two distinct words well, both of ancient ancestry. The adverb, ‘satisfactorily’ [OE], has relatives throughout the Germanic languages (German wohl, Dutch wel, Swedish väl, and Danish vel), and probably goes back ultimately to the Indo …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 132welter — [13] Welter was originally a verb, meaning ‘roll about’ (borrowed probably from Middle Dutch welteren, it came ultimately from the Germanic base *wal , *wel ‘roll’, source also of English wallet, wallow, waltz, etc, and is distantly related to… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins