tuppettu
Sicilian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Compare French toupie, English top. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun edit
tuppettu m (plural tuppetti)
- (games, eastern Sicily) spinning top
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:strùmmula
References edit
- Traina, Antonino (1868) “tuppetta, tuppettu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 4395