chiaita

Sicilian

Etymology

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Noun

chiaita f (plural chiaiti)

1. (often in the plural) chit-chat, chatter

   chiaiti assai e fatti pocu ― all talk and no action

   inchiri la testa di chiaiti ― to talk someone's ear off (literally, “to fill someone's head with chatter”)

   troppi chiaiti mèttinu siti ― (please add an English translation of this usage example) (literally, “too much talk makes you thirsty”)

Descendants

• → Maltese: ċajt

References

• Traina, Antonino (1868) “chiaìta”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 810
• Pasqualino (c. 1790) “chiaita”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 1, page 300