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

• Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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• TheWeirdestCunt@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  More people wear hoodies than bonnets though

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