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Ultimately from a substrate language, from *bonnĭcca, perhaps from *bodinĭcca, from Proto-Celtic *bodinā (“heap, bollard”). Compare French borne.[1]

moneca f (plural monecas, masculine moneco, masculine plural monecos)

  1. doll (a toy in the form of a human)
  2. ball of cloth for applying varnish, etc
  3. (archaic) wrist
    Synonym: pulso
  1. ^ Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1983–1991), “muñeca”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎[1] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos