lìnnina
Sicilian
editEtymology
editFrom Late Latin lendina, ultimately from Latin lendis f. Compare Italian lendine m.
Noun
editlìnnina f (plural lìnnini)
- nit (egg of a louse)
References
edit- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 476: “i lendini” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- Traina, Antonino (1868) “lìnnina”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 2267