Surprising Doublets: Wheel, Cycle, and Chakra

The English words “wheel” and “cycle” are related, as is the word “chakra” (a centre of spiritual energy within the body, in Hinduism). When two words have a shared etymology within a language, we call them “doublets”.

Another surprising doublet of these is “Ku Klux Klan”. The “Ku Klux” bit comes from the Greek “Kuklos”. But they’re a bunch of racist fuckwits so they don’t get to be on the infographic.