köken: From Middle High German sleier, sleiger, sloiger, slogier. Of uncertain ultimate origin, but most likely borrowed; perhaps related to Latin stragulus (“covering”). Compare Middle Low German sleyer, sloier, sloiger, Middle English scleire, scleyre, sleyre, slyre (“veil”).
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weg-der.? Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-der.? Proto-Italic *wekslom Latin vēlum Old Spanish velo Spanish velo Inherited from Old Spanish velo, from Latin vēlum (“sail; veil”), from Proto-Indo-European.
aile: correr el velo, velo de novia, velo del paladar
köken: From Middle High German sleier, sleiger, sloiger, slogier. Of uncertain ultimate origin, but most likely borrowed; perhaps related to Latin stragulus (“covering”). Compare Middle Low German sleyer, sloier, sloiger, Middle English scleire, scleyre, sleyre, slyre (“veil”).
köken: From Proto-Slavic *nametъka. Related to мі́тити (mítyty). Cognate with Czech námětka, Russian наме́тка (namétka), Belarusian намётка (namjótka), Polish namiotka, Bulgarian наме́тка (namétka).
ghoonghat, veil (covering drawn over the face) · prepuce, foreskin
çekim: çoğul घूँघटों
köken: Etymology tree Proto-New Indo-Aryan *घुंबपट्ट (ghuṃbapaṭṭa) Hindi घूँघट Inherited from Proto-New Indo-Aryan *घुंबपट्ट (ghuṃbapaṭṭa). Cognate with Nepali घुमटो (ghumaṭo), Gujarati ઘૂમટો (ghūmṭo), Bengali ঘোমটা (ghōmṭa) and Odia ଘୁମ୍ବଟା (ghumbaṭā).
veil (gauze, crape, or similar material spread out to hide the face) · mist (light, fine fog, cloud, shadow that obstructs clear vision) · fog (silver deposit or other blur on a negative or developed photographic image)
A covering for the head of women, which fell down over the shoulders
çekim: çoğul calauticae · tamlayan calauticae
köken: A borrowing attested from Afranius; the same as Classical Syriac ܟܲܠܵܘܵܐ (kalāwā), ܟܲܠܘܵܐ (kalwā, “tiara”) from Akkadian 𒆪𒇻𒇻 (/kulūlu/, “a kind of turban or headband”) which Brockelmann glosses in his Syriac-Latin lexicon as calautica; probably in Latin via Demotic Egyptian, Coptic ⲕⲗⲁϥⲧ (klaft). Also passed into Arabic كَلَّوْتَة (kallawta), كَلَّفْتَة (kallafta), كَلَّفْتَاة (kallaftāh), a…
köken: Uncertain. Related to бу́ла (búla, “Turkish woman”), so the meaning may have shifted by metonymy to refer to certain types of face veils that Turkish women once wore (e.g. yashmak).
Probably adapted from Latin vēlum or Italian velo. If inherited the regular shift of an intervocalic "l" to "r" would be expected. Less likely from Vulgar Latin *vēllum.