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Sicilian
Etymology
From pisci (“fish”) + -uni, literally “big fish”, because of its form. The formation “fish of the leg” can also be found in Lucania,[1] Sardinian pische de sa camba and Moroccan Arabic حوتة الرجل (ḥūtat er-rjal).
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Noun
pisciuni m (plural pisciuna)
- calf (muscle of the leg)
Descendants
References
- Traina, Antonino (1868) “pisciuni”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 3111
- Pasqualino (c. 1790) “pisciuni”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 4, page 122