nottàmmulu

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Sicilian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin noctu ambulans, reanalyzed as containing -ulus. Compare Italian nottambulo.

Noun

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nottàmmulu m (plural nottàmmuli, feminine nottàmmula)

  1. sleepwalker

References

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  • Pasqualino (c. 1790) “nottammulu”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 3, page 330