marionette
English
noun
Definitions
- A puppet, usually made of wood, which is animated by the pulling of strings.
- (obsolete) The buffel duck.
Etymology
Borrowed from French marionnette.
Origin
French
marionnette
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- marionettish English
- marionettist English
- supermarionette English
- Marionette German
- marionet Dutch, Flemish
- marionnette French
- marionnettiste French
- марионетка Russian
- marioneta Spanish, Castilian
- marionete Portuguese
- marioneta Czech
- marioneto Esperanto
- marionetă Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- Marionett Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- მარიონეტი Georgian