puntutu

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Sicilian

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Etymology

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By surface analysis, punta +‎ -utu. Compare Italian puntuto, French pointu, Portuguese pontudo.

Adjective

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puntutu (feminine singular puntuta, masculine and feminine plural puntuti)

  1. pointed, sharp

References

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  • Traina, Antonino (1868) “puntutu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 3265
  • Pasqualino (c. 1790) “puntutu”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 4, page 188