Comparative evidence

terkʷ

• Lat. torqueō -ēre ‘to twist tightly’, ‘to wrap’, ‘to subject to torture’, ‘torment’, ‘to turn’, ‘roll’, ‘divert’, ‘bend’, ‘distort’, ‘spin’ (OLD: 1951)

References

OLD = Glare, P. G. W. 1968. Oxford Latin Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.