għonnella

Etymology
From older (now ) and/or, from a diminutive of , whence also 🇨🇬. The replacement of with  is unusual even in early borrowings. At any rate it requires that the borrowing occurred before the beginning of the merger of with, thus earlier than 1700.

Noun

 * 1)  kind of head covering worn by Maltese women (generally until the 19th c. and occasionally still in the earlier 20th c.), most typically in the form of a long shawl with a stiff hem, creating a wide hood over the wearer’s head
 * 2)  women’s overgarment more generally
 * 1)  women’s overgarment more generally