manciaciumi
Sicilian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Distortion of French démangeaison (“an itching”). By surface analysis, manciari (“to eat”) + ciumi (“rivers”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
manciaciumi f
References edit
- Traina, Antonino (1868) “manciaciumi, manciaciuni”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 2358