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Vesuel de musciat de 12 dis y loma pra Pieralongia te Ncisles.
Vesuel de musciat y loma pra Pieralongia te Ncisles.

Etymology

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From Late Latin *muscella (“young mule”), probably via a Romance back-formation comparable to Friulian mus and Venetan muso.[1]

Noun

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musciat m (plural musciac)

  1. (Gherdëina, Badiot, Fascian, Fodom) donkey
    L paur à doi musciac. ― The farmer has two donkeys.
  2. (Gherdëina, Badiot, Fascian, Fodom, colloquial) idiot
    Tu ies n musciat. ― You are an idiot.

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References

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  1. ^ Sandra Tamaro, “Zoonimia istriota”, in Annales: Series Historia et Sociologia, 12(1), 2002, pp. 95–112, p. 99; citing REW 5767 and DEI
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