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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?)