Kilo Lingo

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Translation

curl of hair, ringlet

Word origin

From French boucle, a curl or a loop, from Latin buccula, the little cheek-strap of a helmet and a diminutive of bucca, cheek. English buckle is the same Latin word arriving by a different route.

Origin
French
Root
buccula
English cognates
buckle, boucle

Examples

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Her hair fell in soft curls onto her shoulders.

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The girl played with one curl while she read.

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He has black curls like his mother.

A is one curl or ringlet, not a whole head of hair. The -l- belongs to the root, -; there is no affix to peel off here and no verb buki underneath.

Hair vocabulary clusters around it. is a hair, o the head of it, is to comb and i is to wave. And a wig, , is where the bukloj happen to be somebody else's.

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This word is part of lesson 57.