wisp

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From Middle English wispe, wyspe, wips, wipse, perhaps from an unrecorded Old English *wisp, *wips. Cognate with West Frisian wisp, Dutch wisp (“bundle of hay or straw”), Norwegian bokmål/Swedish/Bornholm Danish visp (“handful or bundle of grass, hay, etc.”). Akin also to Middle Dutch/Middle Low German wispel (“measure of grain”).

47 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: خُصْلَة (ḵuṣla) — a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance
• Arabic: حُزْمَة (ḥuzma) — a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance
• Arabic: خَيْط (ḵayṭ) — a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance
• Bulgarian: кичур (kičur) — a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance
• Catalan: bri — a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance
• Catalan: borrall — a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance
• Catalan: borralló — a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance
• Chinese Mandarin: 束 — a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance
• Chinese Mandarin: 绺 (liǔ) — a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance
• Chinese Mandarin: 缕 (lǚ) — a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance
• Czech: pramínek (vlasů, trávy) — a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance
• Czech: proužek (dýmu) — a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance
• Czech: vích — a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance
• Old Czech: viech — a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance
• Dutch: sliert — a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance
• Finnish: nippu — a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance
• French: brin — a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance
• French: fétu — a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance
• French: touffe — a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance
• Georgian: კონა (ḳona) — a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance
• German: Haarbüschel — a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance
• German: Strohbündel — a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance
• German: Wisch — a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance
• German: Strähne — a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance
• German: dünne Fahne — a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance
• Irish: dlaoi — a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance
• Italian: ciocca — a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance
• Italian: trefolo — a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance
• Italian: legnolo — a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance
• Italian: pagliuzza — a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance
• Plautdietsch: Wesch — a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance
• Polish: kosmyk — a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance
• Polish: wstęga — a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance
• Polish: kłęby — a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance
• Portuguese: tufo — a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance
• Romanian: șuviță — a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance
• Romanian: șuvițe — a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance
• Russian: пучо́к (pučók) — a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance
• Slovak: viecha — a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance
• Old Slovak: viecha — a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance
• Spanish: brizna — a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance
• Spanish: mechón — a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance
• Spanish: voluta — a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance
• Spanish: jirón — a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance
• Turkish: tutam saç — a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance
• Turkish: tutam — a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance
• Ukrainian: віхоть (vixotʹ) — a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance