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Sicilian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic قَلْعَة (qalʕa) and a non well attested element, namely said to be šabaṯ ("anice"). Doublet of Calascibbetta.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌka.la.ʃʃɪbˈbɛt.ta/
- Hyphenation: Ca‧la‧scib‧bèt‧ta
Proper noun
Calaxibbetta m
- Calascibetta (a town, in Sicily, Italy)
Usage notes
- The grapheme ⟨x⟩ is here employed for /ʃ/ as many instances of /ʃ/ in Old Sicilian do derive from a Latin x, as for example coscia, otherwise this symbol has however been used to adopt borrowings from foreign languages. The grapheme was also widely used in Ibero-Romance languages with the same scope.
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