sonnaille

Inherited 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”).

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sonnaille f (plural sonnailles)

1. cowbell

   Hypernym: clochette

• “sonnaille” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “sŏnare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 12: Sk–š, page 99 (see also footnote 16)
• “sonnaille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.