different between qiviut vs wool
qiviut
English
Etymology
From Eastern Canadian Inuktitut ????, ???? (qiviuq, qiviut, “underwool”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?v.i.?t/
Noun
qiviut (uncountable)
- The underwool of the Arctic muskox, used as a fibre.
References
qiviut From the web:
wool
English
Etymology
From Middle English wolle, from Old English wull, from Proto-Germanic *wull? (cognate with Saterland Frisian Wulle, German Low German Wull, Dutch wol, German Wolle, Norwegian ull), from Proto-Indo-European *h?w??h?neh? (compare Welsh gwlân, Latin l?na, Lithuanian vìlna, Russian ?????? (vólos), Bulgarian ???? (vlas), Albanian lesh (“wool, hair, fleece”)). Doublet of lana.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /w?l/
- (General American) enPR: wo?ol, IPA(key): /w?l/, [w???], [w??]
- Rhymes: -?l
Noun
wool (usually uncountable, plural wools)
- The hair of the sheep, llama and some other ruminants.
- 2006, Nigel Guy Wilson, Ancient Greece, page 692
- The sheep were caught and plucked, because shears had not yet been invented to cut the wool from the sheep's back.
- 2006, Nigel Guy Wilson, Ancient Greece, page 692
- A cloth or yarn made from the wool of sheep.
- Anything with a texture like that of wool.
- 1975, Anthony Julian Huxley, Plant and Planet, page 223
- The groundsels have leaves covered in wool for insulation […]
- 1975, Anthony Julian Huxley, Plant and Planet, page 223
- A fine fiber obtained from the leaves of certain trees, such as firs and pines.
- (obsolete) Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled.
- (Britain, New Zealand) yarn (including that which is made from synthetic fibers.)
- (Liverpudlian) Derogatory term for residents of the satellite towns outside Liverpool, such as St Helens or Warrington. See also Yonner.
Hyponyms
- (cloth or yarn): felt, tweed, worsted
Coordinate terms
- (hair of sheep): goathair, horsehair, qiviut
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ??? (?ru)
Translations
See also
- wool on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Cornish
Noun
wool
- Soft mutation of gool.
wool From the web:
- what wool is the warmest
- what woolly mammoth eat
- what wool is not itchy
- what wool to use for needle felting
- what wool means
- what wool is cashmere
- what wool for arm knitting
- what wool is itchy
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