a spider (arachnid) · a spindle (the rotating part of a machine) · a spider (link-following program on the World Wide Web)
çekim: çoğul spindlar · tamlayan spindels
köken: From Old Swedish spinnil, equivalent to spinna (“to spin”) + -el (“agent suffix”). Compare German Spinne, Dutch spin, Danish spindelvæv, Norwegian spindelvev. Sense 2 is a semantic loan from German Spindel.
Inherited from Old Church Slavonic паѭкъ (pajǫkŭ), going back to Proto-Slavic *paǫkъ + epenthetic *-j-. Morphologically formed as па- (pa-) + *ѫк (*ǫk, “angler, hooker”). Compare Church Slavonic ѫкоть (ǫkotĭ, “hook”) (Serbian recension).