Etymology

tymbal

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Today it means: One of a pair of specialised sound-producing structures located below each side of the anterior abdominal region of various species of cicada. Full definition →

French timbale
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The story

  1. French · borrowed fromtimbale
  2. English todaytymbal

Variant of timbale, from French timbale.

Words from the same roots

Frenchtimbale all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.