wimple

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. A cloth which usually covers the head and is worn around the neck and chin. It was worn by women in medieval Europe and is still worn by nuns in certain orders.
2. A fold or pleat in cloth.
3. A ripple, as on the surface of water.
4. A curve or bend.
5. A flag or streamer.

Verb

1. To cover with a wimple.
2. To draw down; to lower, like a veil.
3. To cause to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to cause to ripple or undulate.
4. To flutter.

Conceptos

cofia

Sinónimos

bonnet

cockle

coif

contract

cower

cringe

crinkle

crouch

crumple

knit

pucker

ruck

rumple

shrink

shrivel

stream

undulate

wave

👋

wrinkle

crimple

Traducciones

soggolo

μαίανδρος

kap

κάλυμα

βέλο

πέπλο

guimpe

bocht

kromming

muts

plooi

rimpel

nonnenkap

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈwɪmpəl/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: wympel

Heredado de inglés antiguo: wimpel

Cognado con escocés: wympill

Cognado con neerlandés: wimpel

Cognado con alemán: Wimpel

Cognado con sueco: vimpel

Cognado con islandés: vimpill

Heredado de inglés medio: wimplen

In summary

From Middle English wympel, wimpel, from Old English wimpel (“veil, an article of women's dress; a covering for the neck, a cloak, a hood”), from Proto-Germanic *wimpilaz (“wimple, scarf, veil”). Cognate with Scots wympill (“wimple”), Dutch wimpel (“streamer, pennant”), German Wimpel (“pennant”), Swedish vimpel (“pennant, banner”), Icelandic vimpill (“hood, cowl”).