hi chris
interesting project but maybe inadequate premises :
if the name of the key word is spinning top , then you should start with the simple snap top that anybody can make with a match and a piece of cardboard...if you ask people what they have in mind , it's a basic spinning object
then comes the problem of a sound definition
" anything that's spins after being activated" ? no it would make a Frisbee a spintop !
we can add up "spins on a surface" is it enough ? perhaps yes
then i would try to find sub categories like "powered by only the hand " or "powered with a tool : a string , a whip , a crankshaft, air , etc...
same remark for the drawing : how can someone relate to a player seen from above who seems to manipulate a diabolo?
i would go for a more formal illustration either a top spinning on the ground or in the hand
what you think?
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here is a list I have gathered here and there
Tops from around the world
Argentina
Trompo
Australia
Kolap (Island of Mer in the Torres Straits)
Pewer kolap (Island of Mer in the Torres Straits)
Wana (Mabuiag in the Torres Straits)
Belgium
Draaitol (Dutch)
Muziektol (Dutch)
Toppen (Dutch)
Toupie (French)
Dop (Flemish dialect)
Brazil
Pião
Bulgaria
Pumpal
Bosnia
Svrdlo
Burundi
Akamari
Cambodia
Too loo (Hmong)
China
Tuoluo
Too loo (Hmong)
Colombia
Trompos
Croatia
Svrdlo
Zvrk
Czech Republic
Káca
Denmark
Snurretop
Esperanto
Turbo
Estonia
Vurr
Finland
Hyrrä
France
Toupie, f.
Germany
Danzknöpfli (Schwarzwald)
Dilldop (Köln)
Dreidel
Havergeis (Schwarzwald)
Kreisel, m.
Schnurre, f. (old form)
Wendekreisel (tippe top)
Ghana
Akondodee
Ate
Greece
Sbora
Svoura
Guatemala
Trompos
Hungary
búgócsiga (humming top)
Pörgettyu;
Pörgö
Csiga
literally - snail.
Iceland
Skopparahringla
India
Bambaram (tamil)
Bhamaido. Pronounced : bha - my - doe
(Gujarat - a mid western Indian state)
Bhoura. Pronounced : bho-rra
(Maharashtra)
Buguri
(Kannada and Tulu languages)
Lattoo
(Hindi)
Iran
Fer Ferè
Iraq
Dauama (South)
Laulab
Musraa (slang)
Israel
Dreidel (Yiddish)
Forfera (Hebrew)
peg top
Rolera (Hebrew)
peg top
Sevivon (Hebrew)
Literally: turning/spinning
Italy
Sotula (Turin, Piedmont)
Trottola, f.
Japan
Koma asobi
Korea
Pang-Ih
Kuwait
Dawammahh
Laos
Too loo (Hmong)
Latvia
Vilcins
Lithuania
Vilkelis
Marocco
Trombia
Malaysia
Gasing (in the Malay language)
Mexico
Trompo
Pirinola
Netherlands
Tol ("Tollen" is the name of playing with the "tol").
Bromtol (Brom = buzzing)
Draaitol (Draaien=to turn)
New Zealand
Potakas (Maori)
Norway
Kattimann (Hovdenakken, Romsdalen)
Kåtekall (Øygarden N/W of Bergen)
Snurrebass
also used as slang for the male genital
Snørekall
top started with cord.
Speril (Røra in Innherad)
Literally - lambs tail.
Spinnhurr (Hemsedal)
Sylletopp (Stavanger)
Pakistan
Latoo (Sindh province)
Peru
Trompo
Philippines
Ka-sing (cebuano, visayan)
Trumpo (tagalog)
Poland
Baczek
Bak
Portugal
Pião
Puerto Rico
Chobita
small top - literally - small fish
Vaca
large top - literally - cow
Romania
Titirez
Russia
Volchok
Serbia
Cigra
pronounced 'chigra'
Spain
Baldufa (Barcelona - Catalunya)
Buxaina (Galicia)
from buxo the Galician word for the wood of which spinning tops were made in the older days
Galdrufa (Aragon)
Peon (Aragon)
Peonza, f. (Aragon)
Pirindola (Aragon)
Pirulo (Aragon)
Refinadera (Aragon)
Trompa, (Valencia)
Trompo, m. (Barcelona - Catalunya)
Trompitxol (Barcelona - Catalunya)
Virolet
Sri Lanka
Pamper
Sweden
Snurra
Switzerland
Kreisel
Pfurri, n.
Spielkreisel
Stubentänzer, m.
Surrlibutz (humming top)
Suuri (Baseldeutsch)
Wiirpel (Baselbieter dialect)
Zwiirbel, m.
Taiwan
Gan Leh
Thailand
Luke Khang (Thai)
Too loo (Hmong)
Tunisia
Zarbout
Turkey
Topac (pronounced 'toepatch')
United Kingdom
Humming top
Spinning top
United States
Top
Venezuela
Trompos
Zaranda
(tin pump top)
Vietnam
Too loo
jim
