sonnaille

French

Etymology

From Old French, borrowed from Franco-Provençal sonalye, from Vulgar Latin *sonācula pl.

Pronunciation

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Noun

sonnaille f (plural sonnailles)

1. cowbell

   Hypernym: clochette

References

• Littré, Émile (1873–1878), “sonnaille”, in Dictionnaire de la langue française, Paris: L. Hachette
• “sonnaille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “sŏnare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 12: Sk–š, page 99 (see also footnote 16)