sonnaille

French

Etymology

From Old French sonnaille, probably borrowed from Old Franco-Provençal (cf. modern sonalye), from the plural of Vulgar Latin *sonāculum (“rattle”), from Latin sonāre (“make noise”).

Noun

sonnaille f (plural sonnailles)

cowbell

References

“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)

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