top, spinning top (toy) · roundabout, traffic circle
çekim: çoğul Kreiseln · tamlayan Kreisels
eş: Topf, Dorl, Pfirre, Spielkreisel, Trendel
köken: From Middle High German kriusel, derived from krūs, whence modern kraus (“frizzy, curly”). Doublet of Kräusel (“frizzle, squiggle”). The sense “spinning top” was borrowed from cognate Middle Low German krü̂sel into East Central German, whence it spread in the written language. The unrounded form Kreisel was later standardised due to association with etymologically unrelated Kreis (“circle”). It…
Jouet qu’on fait tourner sur la pointe en lui imprimant un mouvement de rotation au moyen d’une ficelle déroulée vivement ou d’un ressort.
çekim: çoğul toupies
eş: fiarde, toton, girouette
köken: Inherited from Middle French toupie (“spinning top”), from Old French topoie (“spinning top”), probably from Frankish *topp (“spinning top”), uncertain whether from *tuppaz (“top, summit, peak”), if so then so called because the toy spins on its tip, which is the top. Cognate with Middle Dutch top, topp (“spinning top”), dialectal Dutch top and dop (“spinning top”) against standard tol, West…
a spinning top · a rigid object that can rotate freely around a fixed point · a 家(か)紋(もん) (kamon, “family crest”) in the form or shape of a spinning top
köken: Appears to be a shortening of older reading komatsukuri or komatsuburi (see below). The shorter form koma is now the most common reading. The kanji spelling is an example of jukujikun (熟(じゅく)字(じ)訓(くん)).