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a diminutive of Spatz(“sparrow”), comparing the name of the dish Rindsvögel
or in another ablaut to the family of Spitze(“cusp, peak”), GermanSpieß(“spit”), comparing to the Italianspirelli(literally “little spires or coils”); compare its other name Knöpfli from Knopf(“knob”)
or of even more obscure orgin possibly related to GermanSpatzeck(“tipcat”), which may be from the words for spits and cusps, or related to expressive verbs like Southern spatzen(“to make jerk away”), batzen(“to agglutinate by thrusting”), patzen(“to beat, to pound”), or Rhaeto-Romance forms of Latinbattuere(“to beat, to pound”).
