manciaciumi
Sicilian
Alternative forms
- manciaciuni
Etymology
Distortion of French démangeaison (“an itching”). By surface analysis, manciari (“to eat”) + ciumi (“rivers”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌman.tʃaˈçu.mɪ/
- Hyphenation: man‧cia‧ciu‧mi
Noun
manciaciumi m
- an itching, itch
- Synonym: chiuritu
References
- Antonino Traina (1868) Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 2358