Sonnaille

Sonnaille [Lat. sonus, sound], Fr.: originally a pellet bell, jingle, clapperless bell; later, a bell hung around the neck of a domestic animal. “Sonnailler” is the bellwether. From the 16th c. on the term is used in the sense of herd animal bell; it is still so employed in Auvergne, where the bells are made of sheet metal (53, 127). Sort by:DefaultAuthorTitleDateAscendingDescending Dick, Friedrich. Bezeichnungen für Saiten- und Schlaginstrumente in der altfranzösischen Literatur. Giessen…