ciaca
Sicilian
editEtymology
editUncertain. Could be from Arabic [script needed] (kiaka)[1] or [script needed] (taciakì).[2] (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
editNoun
editciaca f (plural ciachi)
Descendants
edit- →? Maltese: ċagħaq
References
edit- ^ Traina, Antonino (1868) “ciaca”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 836
- ^ Pasqualino (c. 1790) “ciaca”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 1, page 312
- ^ AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1673: “m'ha tirato un sasso” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it