WotD Bonus Special Edition: spinning wheel

[muckefuck]

1. das Spinnrad
2. het spinnewiel
3. la rueca
4. la filosa
5. le rouet, la rouette
6. y droell
7. an tuirne
8. kołowrotek
9. 물레
10. 紡車 fǎngchē

Etymological notes: 3. From proto-Germanic *rokko "distaff" (cf. MdG (Spinn)rocken "idem.") 4. From fil "thread" 5. Dim. of roue "wheel". (Fem. variant is LA French.) 6. From tro "turn". 7. MIr túrna (cf. OE turn(i)an, OFr tourner "to turn). 8. ?Dim. of kołowrót "turnstyle" (from koło "wheel" and wróta "gate".) 10. 紡 "reel, spin" + 車 "cart"

Bonus translations:

• Basque: txirrika (Cf. Biscayan txirringa "wheel")
• Breton: karr-nezañ "cart [of] spinning"
• Chickasaw: polonaatanni' (< polona "thread" + aa- [locative prefix] + tanni' "to spin")
• Gaelic: cuidheall-shnìomha "wheel [of] spinning"
• Hindi/Panjabi: चरखा/ਚਰਖਾ carkhā (< Persian چرخه charkheh "wheel")
• Japanese: 糸車 itoguruma "thread-cart"
• Okinawan: yaama
• Russian: прялка prjalka (< прясть "to spin")
• Turkish: çıkrık (< Persian?)

Comments

[gorkabear.livejournal.com]

Wow
You found the origin of those words :)
I'm happy to have contributed to this one!

[itchwoot.livejournal.com]

small correction: das Spinnrad

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Argh! Kann jemand mir diese verdammten Geschlechter nicht endgültig aus der Welt schaffen?

[itchwoot.livejournal.com]

Ich werde das veranlassen, sobald ihr eure Vokale mal konsistent gleich aussprecht! ;-)

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Die Aussprache ist doch völlig konsistent! Nur die Schreibweise lässt ja zu wünschen übrig...

[itchwoot.livejournal.com]

nough theat yew maention it...

Thanks/Danke/Gracias/etc.

[bunj.livejournal.com]

Yay!

Thank you for looking these up for me. It's interesting to see the variations. I'm particularly curious about Spanish, which takes a piece of the whole (the distaff) and applies it to the entire apparatus.

[keyne.livejournal.com]

Not relevant to your post, except that you mentioned Basque:

Hurdy-gurdy player singing in Basque, at a TED Talk.

Oh, and bonus map:

A gay man's view of Europe.

[embryomystic.livejournal.com]

Seems the Manx (as is usual, with a few exceptions) are with the Scottish Gaels on this one: queeyl sneeuee.