rokkr
Old Norse
noun
Definitions
- spinning wheel, distaff
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Germanic *rukkô (used in spinning thread, a staff with flax fibres tied loosely to it, a distaff).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*rukkô
Gloss
used in spinning thread, a staff with flax fibres tied loosely to it, a distaff
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- disfrock English
- frock English
- frockish English
- frockless English
- housefrock English
- underfrock English
- unfrock English
- Frack German
- rokk Norwegian Bokmål
- roca Portuguese
- *rukkô Proto-Germanic
- rokk Norwegian Nynorsk
- frok Middle English
- rokkur Icelandic
- ffrog Welsh
- rocko Old High German
- rokkbólkur Faroese
- rokkur Faroese
- rocke Middle High German
- *rukka Gothic
- rukka Gothic
- *roggō gmw-pro
- *rocko Old Dutch
- rakk Westrobothnian
- Frack Pennsylvania German
- rukka, rocko lng
- faraak Fiji Hindi