köken: From Middle Persian [script needed] (kwlʾp̄ /kulāf/, “cap, bonnet”). Compare Middle Armenian սաքուլայ (sakʻulay) and Northern Luri کلۏ (kelö).
köken: Etymology tree Old French chape Proto-Indo-European *-keh₂der. Proto-Balto-Slavic *-kāˀ Proto-Slavic *-ъka Old Polish -ka Old Polish czapka Polish czapka Inherited from Old Polish czapka. By surface analysis, Old French chape + -ka.
köken: A diminutive of Hilda, Hilja and Hilma. It can also be a short form of Punahilkka (“Little Red Riding Hood”), originally as a nickname for Hilkka Finne (born Hilja Finne), supposedly because she liked playing Little Red Riding Hood as a child.
köken: Possibly borrowed from Albanian kësulë (var. kaçule). Compare Aromanian cãciulã, cãciuã, Greek κασούλα (kasoúla). Alternatively cognate to it as Balkan substratum word, or akin to Latin casula or cuculla. Other attempts have been made to link it to a Vulgar Latin *catteula, from *cattea, from cattus, to *casibula, variant of casubula, but these are unlikely. Compare also Venetan caciòła.
Inherited from Middle French bonet, from Old French bonet (“material from which hats are made”), from Frankish *bunni (“that which is bound”), from Proto-Germanic *bundiją (“bundle”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (“to tie”). Compare also Late Latin abbonis, obbonis (“ribbon of a headdress”), also of Germanic origin, from Frankish *obbunni, from *ob- (“above, over”) + *bunni. Cognates: see…