Sicilian
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Etymology
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Inherited from Latin pecten, pectinem. Compare Italian pettine.
pèttini m (plural pèttini)
- comb (for hair)
- pèttini di lìnnini ― lice comb
Ogni nodu veni ô pèttini.- All chickens come home to roost.
- (literally, “Every knot comes to the comb.”)
- (weaving) comb
References
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- Traina, Antonino (1868) “pèttini”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 3024
- Pasqualino (c. 1790) “pèttini”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 4, page 83