Italian Etymological Notes

[Etymologies are offered for: aduggere ‘to irritate, anger’; Sien, asciunare ‘to gather’ and dialectal cognates; attraccare ‘to draw a boat to shore’; bifolco ‘cow-herd’; coccolarsi ‘to squat; to enjoy oneself’; dunque ‘therefore’; elce ‘holm-oak’; incignare ‘to begin’; infolcarsi ‘to interfere, meddle’; ischio ‘oak’; lazzo ‘(stage) trick, gag’; mucca ‘milch-cow’; pozzanghera ‘mud-puddle’; uggio ‘disgust’; also for Span, mozo, muchacho, Port, moço ‘boy’. These etymologies are divided into two groups: those involving contamination or the like, and simple etymologies.]

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