snood

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• /snuːd/
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From Middle English snod, from Old English snōd (“headdress, fillet, snood”), from Proto-West Germanic *snōdu, from Proto-Germanic *snōdō (“rope, string”), from Proto-Indo-European *snoh1téh2 (“yarn, thread”), from *sneh1(i)- (“to twist, wind, weave, plait”). Cognate with Scots snuid (“snood”), Swedish snod, snodd (“twist, twine”). Compare also Old Saxon snōva (“necklace”), Old Norse snúa (“to turn, twist”), snúðr (“a twist, twirl”), English needle.

32 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Catalan: bigotera — band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place
• Finnish: tukkanauha — band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place
• German: Haarnetz — band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place
• German: Haarband — band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place
• Japanese: スヌード (sunūdo) — band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place
• Korean: 스누드 (seunudeu) — band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place
• Russian: ле́нта (lénta) — band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place
• Russian: повя́зка (povjázka) — band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place
• Scottish Gaelic: stìom — band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place
• Spanish: redecilla — band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place
• Spanish: cintillo — band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place
• Catalan: moc — flap of skin on the beak of a turkey
• Dutch: lel — flap of skin on the beak of a turkey
• Finnish: heltta — flap of skin on the beak of a turkey
• French: pendeloque — flap of skin on the beak of a turkey
• Galician: moco — flap of skin on the beak of a turkey
• German: Kehllappen — flap of skin on the beak of a turkey
• Italian: bargiglio — flap of skin on the beak of a turkey
• Romanian: mărgele — flap of skin on the beak of a turkey
• Russian: хоботок (xobotok) — flap of skin on the beak of a turkey
• Russian: кишка (kiška) — flap of skin on the beak of a turkey
• Spanish: moco de pavo — flap of skin on the beak of a turkey
• Finnish: peruke — short line to attach a fishhook to a line
• German: Mundschnur — short line to attach a fishhook to a line
• Irish: losna — short line to attach a fishhook to a line
• Irish: lusna — short line to attach a fishhook to a line
• Irish: drogha — short line to attach a fishhook to a line
• Irish: foirtéim — short line to attach a fishhook to a line
• Irish: snúda — short line to attach a fishhook to a line
• Māori: takā — short line to attach a fishhook to a line
• Māori: taukaea — short line to attach a fishhook to a line
• Russian: поводо́к (povodók) — short line to attach a fishhook to a line