xipella

Catalan

Etymology

Perhaps from a dialectal form of cipella (“sandal”).

Noun

xipella m (uncountable)

1. Any of various transitional varieties of Central Catalan spoken in the parts of Catalonia where it gives way to Western Catalan.

Further reading

• “xipella” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.