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Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *rukkô, akin to Old High German rocko.
Noun
rokkr m (genitive rokks, plural rokkar)
- spinning wheel, distaff
Declension
Declension of rokkr (strong a-stem)
Descendants
Further reading
- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “rokkr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive