Italian words from Lombard
6 Italian words with Lombard in their history, whether borrowed directly or passed on through other languages.
bigio
Its origin is uncertain. DELI, Nocentini, Devoto–Oli and Sabatini–Coletti agree that it is a northern word adapted to Tuscan pronunciation: it is borrowed from Lombard biso, also bis. Devoto…
busecca
It is borrowed from Lombard büseca, the Milan word, a northern form of busecchia (“gut”). Its origin is uncertain. Nocentini traces the Tuscan word to Vulgar Latin *vesīcula, a diminutive of Latin…
cavedano
It is borrowed from Lombard cavéden, from Vulgar Latin *capĭtine(m), a derivative of Latin caput (“head”). The Lombard form has the northern development of the Latin word. Wiktionary takes the…
filugello
It is a northern word: borrowed from Lombard filosèll (“floss silk”), the Lombard and Milanese word for silk waste, made Tuscan. The Lombard word continues Vulgar Latin *follicellus (“small bag”), a…
pedula
It is borrowed from Lombard pedü made Italian: according to Bisceglia, quoted by DELI, the plural in the sense “mountain shoes” is a northern word adapting the form of the Lombard Alpine valleys…
stravaccarsi
It came into common Italian only recently from the dialects of the Po valley: it is borrowed from Lombard stravaccass, recorded in Milanese in 1814, beside Venetian stravacarse in Venetian (1829)…