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muckefuck ([personal profile] muckefuck) wrote2010-09-21 05:15 pm
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WotD Bonus Special Edition: spinning wheel

  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?)
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    [identity profile] gorkabear.livejournal.com 2010-09-21 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
    Wow
    You found the origin of those words :)
    I'm happy to have contributed to this one!

    [identity profile] itchwoot.livejournal.com 2010-09-21 10:44 pm (UTC)(link)
    small correction: das Spinnrad

    [identity profile] muckefuck.livejournal.com 2010-09-22 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
    Argh! Kann jemand mir diese verdammten Geschlechter nicht endgültig aus der Welt schaffen?

    [identity profile] itchwoot.livejournal.com 2010-09-22 07:43 am (UTC)(link)
    Ich werde das veranlassen, sobald ihr eure Vokale mal konsistent gleich aussprecht! ;-)

    [identity profile] muckefuck.livejournal.com 2010-09-22 02:25 pm (UTC)(link)
    Die Aussprache ist doch völlig konsistent! Nur die Schreibweise lässt ja zu wünschen übrig...

    [identity profile] itchwoot.livejournal.com 2010-09-22 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
    nough theat yew maention it...

    Thanks/Danke/Gracias/etc.

    [identity profile] bunj.livejournal.com 2010-09-22 04:44 pm (UTC)(link)
    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.

    [identity profile] keyne.livejournal.com 2010-09-22 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
    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.

    [identity profile] embryomystic.livejournal.com 2010-10-02 07:21 pm (UTC)(link)
    Seems the Manx (as is usual, with a few exceptions) are with the Scottish Gaels on this one: queeyl sneeuee.
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