granciu
Sicilian
editEtymology
editUltimately from Latin cancer, cancrum (“crab”). Cognate with Italian granchio.
Noun
editgranciu m (plural granci)
Descendants
edit- → Maltese: granċ
- → Tunisian Arabic: قرنجو (granju, “Carcinus aestuarii”)[1]
References
editFurther reading
edit- Traina, Antonino (1868) “granciu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, pages 1885–1886