köken: From Middle Dutch cluwen, from Old Dutch *kliuwīn, from Proto-Germanic *kliuwīną, *klewô, from Proto-Indo-European *glew-. Cognate with English clew.
skein · tangle (complicated or confused state or condition) · an intricate, complex (and often immense) criminal case, investigation, affair or scandal
çekim: çoğul härvor · tamlayan härvas
köken: Likely from harv (“harrow”). First attested in 1624.
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”).
sphere, globe, ball, orb · ball, clew (a quantity of string, thread, etc., wound into a spherical shape) · roll (a movement in which one's body is rolled either forward or backwards)
çekim: çoğul кълба́
köken: Inherited from Old Church Slavonic клѫбо (klǫbo) and Old Church Slavonic клѫбъ (klǫbŭ), from Proto-Slavic *klǫbъ.
girth (of a horse's saddle) · skein or hank (of yarn, thread)
çekim: çoğul cenglau
köken: From Middle Welsh keghel, from Old Welsh cigel, borrowed from Latin cingula, neuter plural (potentially mistaken as feminine singular) of cingulum (“girdle, belt”).