Graveled
/ˈɡræv.əld/noun
Covered or surfaced with gravel; roughened or stony.
Did you know?English gravel comes from Old French gravele, a diminutive of grave meaning “small stone,” ultimately from a pre-Latin root for “stone,” and the same root also hides inside the name of the gravesite-adjacent word grave in some historical senses.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*gʰrebʰ-
“to scrape, dig, or scratch”
Late Latin / Pre-Latin
Latin
grava
“gravel, small stones”
Old French
OF
gravele
“small stones; gravel”
Middle English
English
gravel
“small stones; coarse sand”
Modern English
English
graveled
“covered with or consisting of gravel”