{"id":21153,"date":"2021-07-09T17:11:15","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T17:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=21153"},"modified":"2021-07-09T17:11:47","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T17:11:47","slug":"bonnets-and-pompoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=21153","title":{"rendered":"Bonnets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What would you call a knitted woolen hat with a bobble on top?<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rachelbeer\/2592199637\/in\/photolist-4X4GDc-7uaYtx-5yMzuR-q7KU13-kyWP8F-ms87m-qtPFf2-cfY1Ff-9f1H8d-RHdJZd-E8F48X-9eXB8R-5odkk2-dUSSAJ-9eXAsV-DKNjmz-4mz7ts-r7Zhkb-6vTCSc-2bw56k8-2bJF9H-cfGSCA-5LPzYi-2iCw5hK-hEjJwW-qTgABg-jwDyCv-7sR3kn-P98dwP-5Vnz2L-dX9wrV-8RWexQ-jmL6kS-7dNaMn-E1UKE8-8zQ2vm-odayx2-SiAdGq-AM1cLs-AkP8Bi-7szYo7-6uuL8X-4c8UDB-8PxbT8-qfWtwT-rwirf3-9LwEYF-boxVgF-rryzUz-BedRRr\" title=\"Lost: red bobble hat\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/3025\/2592199637_71a1045936_z.jpg\" alt=\"Lost: red bobble hat\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I would call it a <strong>bobble hat<\/strong>, and I discovered yesterday that in French such a hat is called <strong>un bonnet \u00e0 pompons<\/strong> or <strong>un chapeau \u00e0 pompons<\/strong> or simply <strong>un bonnet<\/strong>. What about in other languages?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bonnet<\/strong> [b\u0254.n\u025b] also means hat, cap, beanie, knit cap, skully, stocking cap or (bra) cup. Other types of <strong>bonnet<\/strong> include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>bonnet d&#8217;\u00e2ne = dunce&#8217;s cap<\/li>\n<li>bonnet de bain = bathing cap, swimming hat<\/li>\n<li>bonnet de nuit = nightcap<\/li>\n<li>bonnet de police = forage cap<\/li>\n<li>bonnet de douche = shower cap<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A <strong>bigwig<\/strong>, or &#8220;person of consequence&#8221;, is  <strong>un gros bonnet<\/strong>, and the French equivalent of <strong>six of one, half a dozen of the other<\/strong> is <strong> bonnet blanc, blanc bonnet<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bonnet<\/strong> comes from the Middle French <em>bonet<\/em>, from the Old French <em>bonet<\/em> (material from which hats are made), from the Frankish <em>*bunni<\/em> (that which is bound), from the Proto-Germanic <em>*bundij\u0105<\/em> (bundle), from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*b\u02b0end\u02b0-<\/em> (to tie).<\/p>\n<p>The English word <strong>bonnet<\/strong> comes from the same root, and can refer to various types of headgear, particularly a type of hat usually framing the face and tied with ribbons under the chin and worn mainly by females.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kidicarus222\/122542540\/in\/photolist-bQ4Cq-7R5Zg9-dc8LSo-dchV9j-BNR5K-dchVu5-dchViZ-QfqWeZ-8Rdkoc-2k14zPD-6eh5qJ-5uRMr-mUo9u-7L4XCy-9g4gj5-M8DSXo-9g4fFf-XZtUbo-6vNNyC-9g19xR-3cqEv8-2kYSGVb-7KsPPH-dVBTje-26pUAVA-2g2tV8f-JtmFyT-2jZMD5Q-2g2tV9T-2g2tSJV-e5g7TF-2g2tRhq-2g2tSLo-2g2tVdR-2g2tSNx-cexGS-K8EsV-nydRS-2AqMFv-26vDE1C-rct8Wx-8pwpX9-5Kv1AQ-t89oq-f97Cfj-2kTssqL-5n3bcH-qiyR9p-5WWgm3-oVPV56\" title=\"baby bonnets\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/36\/122542540_e87e4fad33_z.jpg\" alt=\"baby bonnets\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In Scots a <strong>bonnet\/bunnet<\/strong> refers to &#8220;A head covering for men or boys, including all kinds of caps, but not hats&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sources: <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.reverso.net\/french-english\/bonnet\">ReversoDictionary<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/bonnet#French\">Wiktionary<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/dsl.ac.uk\/entry\/snd\/bonnet_n\">Dictionaries of the Scots Language \/ Dictionars o the Scots Leid<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What would you call a knitted woolen hat with a bobble on top? I would call it a bobble hat, and I discovered yesterday that in French such a hat is called un bonnet \u00e0 pompons or un chapeau \u00e0 pompons or simply un bonnet. What about in other languages? Bonnet [b\u0254.n\u025b] also means hat, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,110,111,10,27,34,44,45,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-frankish","category-french","category-language","category-middle-french","category-old-french","category-proto-germanic","category-proto-indo-european","category-scots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21153"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21164,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21153\/revisions\/21164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}