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zolla.

lump, tussock, hassock

5 characters2 syllables approx.Italiano language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈd͡zɔl.la/
  1. lump, tussock, hassock

    feminine
  2. turf, sod, divot

    feminine
  3. a small plot of land; a small field

    feminine
Where this word comes from

Either borrowed from Middle High German zolle, or from an earlier Lombardic scolla, zolla, (modern German Scholle), from Proto-Germanic *skaljō (compare West Frisian skyl (“peel, rind”), Dutch schil (“peel, skin, rink”), Low German Schell (“shell, scale”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to split, cleave”) (compare Irish scelec (“pebble”), Latin silex (“pebble, flint”), siliqua (“pod”), Old Church Slavonic сколика (skolika, “shell”)). Compare Sicilian zoḍḍa.

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