carousel
KAIR-uh-sel · noun
Origin
English carousel comes from French carrousel, which came from Italian carosello, itself traced to Sicilian caruseḍḍu and/or Neapolitan carusiello. The exact root within those dialects is uncertain, and an old guess linking it to carro ("cart") from Latin carrus doesn't hold up morphologically.
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Related words
It is not believed to be related to the similar-looking word carousal, despite the resemblance.