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?)

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[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.