къжел

From Proto-Slavic *kǫželь.

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къ́жел • (kǎ́žel) m (dialectal)

1. distaff, spinning rock (particularly: the conical upper part where one attaches the fibres)

   Synonym: ху́рка (húrka)

2. (by extension) pointy tool, awl
3. (figurative, by similarity) conical mound, crag or other landform

• къ́жель (kǎ́želʹ), ку́жель (kúželʹ) — in dialects where final -ь is preserved
• къ́жец (kǎ́žec) — with suffix -ец (-ec)

• къ́жлевка (kǎ́žlevka), къ́жльовка (kǎ́žljovka) (diminutive)
• къжли́ца (kǎžlíca, “waxwing”) (dialectal)
• къ́жлест (kǎ́žlest, “conical”) (dialectal)

• къде́ля (kǎdélja, “bundle of wool”)
• врете́но (vreténo), преде́но (predéno, “spindle”)

• “къжел”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “къжел”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 183
• Nayden Gerov (1897) “кѫжель”, in Рѣчникъ на Блъгарскꙑй язꙑкъ. Съ тлъкувание рѣчи-тꙑ на Блъгарскꙑ и на Русскꙑ. [Dictionary of the Bulgarian language]‎ (in Bulgarian), volume 2, Plovdiv: Дружествена печꙗтница "Съгласие.", page 444