One person contributed the following: "The root [Arabic -- falaka] … from the same primitive Semitic root we get [Akkadian -- pilakku]; [Hebrew -- pelek]; [Arabic -- falkatun], all meaning the whirl of a spindle, and by another line of derivation [Arabic -- falakun]; [Ethiopic -- falaka] for the celestial hemisphere.
Mtu mmoja alichangia yafuatayo: "Asili [ya Kiarabu -- falaka] … toka kwenye chanzo kimoja cha kale cha Kisemiti tunapata [Kiakadia -- pilakku]; [Kiebrania -- pelek]; [Kiarabu -- falkatun], yote yakimaanisha mduara wenye kwenda kwa haraka, na chimbuko lingine la tofauti [la Kiarabu -- falakun]; [Kiethiopia -- falaka] likimaanisha nusu nyingine ya mbingu.