ball of yarn · tangle; mass of something entangled · knawel (plant)
çekim: çoğul Knäueln · tamlayan Knäuels
eş: Knäuelkraut
köken: From Middle High German *kniuwel (attested in the form knüel), dissimilation of kliuwel, diminutive of kliuwe, from Old High German kliuwa. Cognate with English clew and clue.
ball of thread, yarn, wool; butter, clay etc. · conclusion; result
çekim: çoğul йомғаҡтар · tamlayan йомғаҡтың
köken: From Proto-Turkic *yum (“round”). Cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (jumɣaq, “globular or round thing”); Turkmen ýumak (“ball”), Khakas ныңмах (nıñmax, “ball-shaped”), Turkish yumak (“ball of wool/thread”), etc.
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese bola, borrowed from Old Occitan bolla, from Vulgar Latin *bolla, from a merger of Latin bulla with Frankish *bollā (compare English bowl). Doublet of bula and bolha.
aile: bater bola, bola de cristal, bola de demolição, bola de espelhos, bola de feno, bola de golfe, bola de gude, bolão, bolar, bolinha
köken: The noun ending -n was added in the 16th or 17th century. The older noun is the same as the verb, nysta. It might be related to Icelandic hnoða and hnúðr, English knit, and Ancient Greek κνύθος (knúthos).
ball of thread or yarn · the third compartment of a ruminant's stomach
çekim: çoğul gheme · tamlayan ghemului
köken: Inherited from Latin glomus, probably through a Vulgar Latin *glemus. Or altered within Romanian from *ghiom > *ghiome (plural form) to *gheme and finally analogically back a singular. Compare Aromanian gljem, gljom. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“form into a ball; ball”).
köken: Inherited from Late Latin capitellum, based on Latin capitem (“head”). Cognate with Spanish caudillo, French chapiteau and Italian capitello. Doublet of cabdill.