anìmulu
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Sicilian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Koine Greek ἀνέμη (anémē, “weasel”) + -ulu.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]anìmulu m (plural anìmuli)
- (spinning) swift (wooden tool spun to stretch a skein of yarn)
- jiri comu n'anìmulu
- to keep moving around, go everywhere
- (literally, “to spin like a swift”)
- 1785 – 1787, Giovanni Meli, Don Chisciotti e Sanciu Panza 7.29:
- chatterbox (talkative person)
- Synonyms: ciàula, carcarazza
References
[edit]- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1507: “l'arcolaio, il guindolo” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- Traina, Antonino (1868) “anìmulu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 265
- Pasqualino (c. 1790) “animulu”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 1, pages 102–103