bussica

Sardinian

Alternative forms

buscica, busica (Nuorese)
busuca, piscica, pissuca, pisica, pissica (Logudorese)
bucciuca, busciuca, bulluca, pisciuca (Campidanese)

Etymology

From Italian vescica, vessica and other Italo-Romance variants, from Latin vessīca, variant of vēsīca.

The Italian route of transmission is indicated by the absence, from Logudorese and Campidanese, of any variant with voiced /-ɡ-/.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /busˈsika/

Noun

bussica f (plural bussicas) (Logudorese, Nuorese)

bladder

References

Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) “vescica”, in Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes
Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964) “bussíkka”, in Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg

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