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English word vortex comes from Proto-Indo-European *were-, and later Proto-Indo-European *wértti (To be turning around.)
*were- (Proto-Indo-European)
*werd- (Proto-Indo-European)
*wértti (Proto-Indo-European)
To be turning around.
*wertō (Proto-Italic)
verto (Latin)
I exchange. I retreat. I reverse (transitive). I translate. I turn around. I turn, revolve.
vertex (Latin)
Crown (of the head). Pole (North or South). Top, peak, summit. Whirlpool, eddy, vortex.
vortex (English)
(figuratively) Anything that inevitably draws surrounding things into its current.. (figuratively) Anything that involves constant violent or chaotic activity around some centre.. (historical) A supposed collection of particles of very subtle matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or planet; part of a Cartesian theory accounting for the [...]