куль

Etymology

Germanic borrowings in the 16th century: Identical at least in a dressing-sense to German Kugel (“cowl”), together with Ukrainian куль (kulʹ), Belarusian куль (kulʹ), Polish kul, all with meanings partially or wholly identical with the Russian, compare the extension of a meaning “hood covering anything” in German Schlappen, and: Also identifiable with German Keule and Kugel, note in particular Old Norse kýll, kýl (“bag”) (whence modern Icelandic kýla (“to stuff, to fill, to bag”)), and generally used borrowings Lithuanian kūlỹs (“bundle”), Latvian kūlis (“bundle”), and: The cod-end of a fishing-net, on the other hand, can be understood as (the related) German Kuhle, Dutch kuil.