vessica

Italian edit

vessica f (plural vessiche)

vessīca f (genitive vessīcae); first declension

(/ss/ was palatalized by /i/ in various descendants.)

Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: bishicã, bishãcã
- Megleno-Romanian: bișică, bișocă
- Romanian: bășică, beșică
- → Albanian: fshikë
Italo-Romance:
- Italian: vescica, vessica; busciga
- Neapolitan: vessica, vassica, vessiga
- Sicilian: vussica, bussica, viscica, vuscica, buscica
- → Sardinian: bussica (see there for more)
North Italian:
- Gallo-Italic:
  - Emilian: psiga, fsiga, vessiga, sfiga
  - Ligurian: vescîga, mescîga, p-scîa
  - Lombard: vessiga, vissiga, essiga, psiga, fsiga, psija
  - Piedmontese: vëssia, psia, msia
  - Romagnol: busciga, psiga
- Friulian: vissie
- Istriot: biseîga
- Ladin: viscia
- Romansch: vaschia, vischigia, vascheia, vschia
- Venetian: vesiga
Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: veixiga
- Franco-Provençal: vesyò
- Old French: vessie (see there for further descendants)
- Gascon: veishiga
- Occitan: vessiga
  Vivaro-Alpine: vessia
Ibero-Romance:
- Aragonese: veixica, vixiga
- Asturian: vexiga
- Old Galician-Portuguese: [Term?]
  - Galician: vexiga, boxiga, buxiga, bexiga
    - →? Portuguese: bexiga
- Old Spanish: vexiga
  - Spanish: vejiga

AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 143: “la vescica” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France^[1] [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 1380: “une vessie gonflée” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “vēsīca”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 14: U–Z, page 342
Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964) “bussíkka”, in Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg

^ Buchi, Éva, Schweickard, Wolfgang (2008–) “*/βesˈsik-a/”, in Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman, Nancy: Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française.