Albanian

Noun

tjerr m

1. worsted, flax yarn spun with a spindle

Etymology 2

From Proto-Albanian *terka, from Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- ‘twist’ (compare Latin torquere, German drechseln ‘to turn wood’, Greek αδράκτι ‎(adrákti) ‘spindle’).

Verb

tjerr ‎(first-person singular past tense tora, participle tjerrë)

1. to spin

Synonyms

• rrotulloj

Derived terms

• tirë
• tirk