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.
köken: Inherited from Old Spanish oviello, loviello, from Late Latin lubellum < globellum, diminutive from Latin globus. The loss of initial /l/ may be due to absorption by a preceding article (el loviello > el oviello).
köken: From Middle Dutch cluwen, from Old Dutch *kliuwīn, from Proto-Germanic *kliuwīną, *klewô, from Proto-Indo-European *glew-. Cognate with English clew.
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: From Old Danish nykil, cognate with Swedish nyckel and Norwegian nøkkel, possibly identical to the following word. Alternatively, it is a younger form, with dissimilation, of Old Danish lykil (cf. also Jutlandic løgel), from Old Norse lykill, derived from the verb lúka (“to close, lock”), from Proto-Germanic *lūkaną.
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.