Comment on If a trunk at the front is called fruck, then a trunk at the back should be brunk.

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• lime@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  the bonnet is the hood, though, right? the british term, using the same rule as frunk, should be “froot”.

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  • MurrayL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Am British, can confirm: the bonnet is the door you open to access the engine bay. The space for luggage is called the boot, and the door you open to access it is called the boot lid.

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• psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  But then it share the word with the hat you wear.

  And someone eventually will call it a fonnet.

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  • TheWeirdestCunt@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    More people wear hoodies than bonnets though

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  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Because bonnet means “any of various hoods, covers, or protective devices”.

    The etymology of which:

    bonnet(n.) early 15c., “kind of cap or bonnet worn by men and women,” from Old French bonet, short for chapel de bonet, a cap made from bonet “kind of cloth used as a headdress” (12c., Modern French bonnet), from Medieval Latin bonitum, bonetum “material for hats,” which is perhaps a shortening of Late Latin abonnis “a kind of cap” (7c.), which is perhaps from a Germanic source. (If that is correct, a chapel de bonet would be etymologically a “cap made of cap”).

    So bonnet as a cover for the forward part of a vehicle originated with bonnet as a cover for one’s head.

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