ANATOLIA-006 - lexical attestation
Anitkaya (formerly Egret), Afyonkarahisar
Turkey - Afyonkarahisar - Europe - Anatolia
Play / practical
firildak Turkish
firildak — 'whirler'; at Anitkaya both the serrated whirled board and a spool toy carry the name, distinguished in the lexicon's two senses.
At Anitkaya on the Afyon plain — Egret, in the old name — the firildak was a strip of board four centimetres by fifteen, its edges cut into teeth, a string at its end. Whirled in the air it sounded; that is the whole of the village dictionary's definition, and the whole of the toy. The serrated edge that roughens its voice is the same trick Turkish villages used from Edirne to Burdur.
- Object
- A board 4 x 15 cm with serrated edges, a string tied to its end, whirled in the air.
- Function
- Village toy: the lexicon defines it as a serrated board on a string that sounds when whirled in the air; a separate wooden-spool spinning toy shares the name.
- Map confidence
- high - Anitkaya town, Afyonkarahisar.
- Source location
- Egreti Koy lexicon, s.v. firildak
- Toy / secular survival