zolla
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Either borrowed from Middle High German zolle, or from an earlier Lombardic scolla, zolla, (modern German Scholle), from Proto-Germanic *skaljō (compare West Frisian skyl (“peel, rind”), Dutch schil (“peel, skin, rink”), Low German Schell (“shell, scale”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to split, cleave”) (compare Irish scelec (“pebble”), Latin silex (“pebble, flint”), siliqua (“pod”), Old Church Slavonic сколика (skolika, “shell”)). Compare Sicilian zoḍḍa.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
zolla f (plural zolle)
Derived terms edit
References edit
- ^ zolla in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)