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Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish wrzeciono, from Proto-Slavic *vertenò, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *wertena, from Proto-Indo-European *wert-en-om, from *wert- (“to turn, to rotate”). Cognate with Lower Sorbian wrjeśeno, Upper Sorbian wrjećeno, Czech vřeteno, Old Church Slavonic врѣтєно (vrěteno), Russian веретено́ (veretenó) and Sanskrit वर्तन (vártana).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɔnɔ
- Syllabification: wrze‧cio‧no
Noun
wrzeciono n (diminutive wrzecionko)
- spindle (rod for spinning and winding thread)
- (Near Masovian) small iron cylinder turned by a millstone
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Further reading
- wrzeciono in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- wrzeciono in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Władysław Matlakowski (1891) “wrzeciono”, in “Zbiór wyrazów ludowych dawnej ziemi czerskiej”, in Sprawozdania Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności, volume 4, Krakow: Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, page 371