{"id":"EXH2026-025","label":"Groningen snorrebot","people_or_site":"Groningen folk (snorrebot)","country_current":"Netherlands","historic_region":"Groningen province (NE-Netherlands dialect belt)","macroregion":"Europe / Low Countries","local_name":"snorrebot","source_term":"snorrebot","source_language":"Dutch","object_description":"Oblong wooden blade, cord through one end, swung — the NE-Dutch folk bullroarer.","function_summary":"Children's toy of the living NE-Netherlands dialect tradition.","attestation_type":"secondary_catalog","source_key":"exhaustiveness2026","source_type":"secondary_literature","source_url":"http://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010330150:mpeg21:a0043:ocr","page_or_plate":"Molema 1928 s.v.; Telegraaf 1942-06-25","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Groningen city/province","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"In Groningen and the wider northeast-Netherlands dialect belt the bullroarer-class noisemaker is the snorrebot — snorren, to whirr or buzz, plus bot, bone, after the older ones cut from animal bone. The same word covers two related toys: a thin blade of wood or bone swung on a cord until it whirrs, and a notched disc spun on a doubled, twisted cord and worked by drawing the hands apart accordion-fashion. A bone example of the second kind, a drilled pig's metatarsal, was dug from the Grote Markt in Groningen and recorded as a children's plaything. Hor is one of the regional synonyms for it. In the living speech of the province it has stayed a child's toy, with none of the secrecy the swung instrument carries elsewhere.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"snorrebot — Groningen/NE-Dutch dialect word for a whirring noisemaker, from snorren (\"to whirr/buzz\") + bot (\"bone\"); used both of the swung blade and of the twirled buzzer-disc","cls":"play_practical","class_label":"Play / practical","color":"#24766D","is_candidate":false,"flags":["toy_survival"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"etymology":"Dutch (Groningen/NE-Netherlands) compound of the verb snorren ('to whirr, buzz, drone', onomatopoeic) + bot ('bone' — a traditional blade material, the blade also being made of wood), i.e. 'the whirring/buzzing bone', a direct description of the humming sound the swung blade produces.","literal_gloss":"whirring/buzzing bone","semantic_cluster":"motion_sound","etymology_confidence":"high","sources":[{"citation":"Molema, Woordenboek der Groningsche Volkstaal (1928) s.v. snorrebot; 'Wat is een snorrebot?', De Telegraaf, 25 June 1942","url":"http://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010330150:mpeg21:a0043:ocr","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013011327/http://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010330150:mpeg21:a0043:ocr"}],"source_citations":"Molema, Woordenboek der Groningsche Volkstaal (1928) s.v. snorrebot; 'Wat is een snorrebot?', De Telegraaf, 25 June 1942","source_display":"Molema, Woordenboek der Groningsche Volkstaal (1928) s.v. snorrebot; 'Wat is een snorrebot?', De Telegraaf, 25 June 1942","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Oblong wooden blade, cord through one end, swung — the NE-Dutch folk bullroarer.","function_display":"","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"secondary catalog","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"groningen folk","display_name":"Groningen snorrebot","image":{"full":"assets/objects/BERG2018-001_utrecht_v105_rib.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/BERG2018-001_utrecht_v105_rib_thumb.jpg","alt":"The Utrecht Wittevrouwenstraat cattle-rib snorrebot, a flat blade with a round end-hole above a 0–5 cm scale.","credit":"Gemeente Utrecht, Erfgoed gemeente Utrecht, basisrapportage archeologie 2018-01, fig. 7.2","license":"In copyright — municipal excavation report; rehosted low-res for non-commercial research","source_page":"https://erfgoed.utrecht.nl/fileadmin/uploads/documenten/zz-erfgoed/publicaties/rapporten-archeologie/2018-01-Archeologie-Wittevrouwenstraat-8-10.pdf","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"A rib-bone snorrebot excavated at Utrecht."},"slug":"exh2026-025-groningen-folk-snorrebot"}