veilbhit
Irish (Donegal)
noun
Definitions
- velvet
Etymology
Borrowed from English velvet derived from Old French veluotte derived from Latin villus (hair, shaggy hair, tuft of hair, down, tuft, woolly hair).
Origin
Latin
villus
Gloss
hair, shaggy hair, tuft of hair, down, tuft, woolly hair
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
髪
Emoji
👱 👱♀️ 👱♂️ 🦳
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- velvet English
- velvetbreast English
- velveteen English
- velvetfish English
- velvetgrass English
- velvetleaf English
- velvetlike English
- velvety English
- villous English
- villus English
- villus Latin
- villutus Latin
- velluto Italian
- villo Italian
- velu French
- villosité French
- vello Spanish, Castilian
- ベルベット Japanese
- velvet Middle English
- veilbhitín Irish
- بَلاس Arabic
- veluotte Old French
- vilo Esperanto
- v'lous Norman
- 벨벳 Korean
- bellus Maltese
- villūtus LL