Italian words from Lombardic
7 Italian words with Lombardic in their history, whether borrowed directly or passed on through other languages.
banca
1. The bench is a Germanic loanword. It is borrowed from Lombardic *banka (“bench”) for Devoto–Oli, Gabrielli and Prati, while DELI and Sabatini–Coletti speak of a Germanic collective of *bank…
ricco
It is borrowed from Lombardic *rīhhi (“powerful”), which wholly replaced the Latin dīves (“rich”). The old sense “powerful” survives in Old French and in Chiaro Davanzati. Arrigo Castellani (1985)…
scherzare
It is borrowed from Lombardic *skerzōn (“to jump about, make merry”). It is compared with Middle High German scherzen (“to make merry, hop about”), whence German scherzen (“to joke”); Nocentini…
schiena
It is borrowed from Lombardic *skëna, a Germanic word for a long, narrow bone, the shin. The Germanic noun is Old High German scina (“shin; needle”) and survives in German Schiene (“splint, rail”)…
schifo
1. The word for disgust is borrowed from Old French eschif (“shy, averse”), which goes back to Frankish *skiuhjan (“to fear, shun”). Nocentini makes the Old French adjective a derivative of eschiver…
stronzata
It is from Italian stronzo + -ata, from the noun in its insulting sense, a stupid or despicable person. The noun first meant a piece of solid excrement and is borrowed from Lombardic *strunz…
stronzo
It is borrowed from Lombardic *strunz (“dung”). Nocentini compares Low German strunt and Dutch stront, and derives French étron from the corresponding Frankish *strunt; Wiktionary traces the…