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prefix ri- (rirompere, etc., but only two or three unusual 
words). 
(c) Other exceptions.™ 
(1) A rather numerous group of words of very uncertain 
derivation in most cases, which, if they do not come from an 
original 1 or E, do not belong here as exceptions. These all 
have the peculiarity of showing an I in both the first two sylla¬ 
bles:, biribara (“giuoco assai intricate”), biribissi (“giuoco,” 
“balocchetto”), birichino (a derivative of briccone), a biri- 
chicci (Lucca: “a cavalcioni”), a birigini (Pistoia: “a caval- 
luccio”)^ a birigiotto (Pistoia: “pig-a-back”), biricoccola (and 
bericoccola, “varieta di albicocca”), birillo, (cf. brillo, a bil¬ 
liard term), birignoccolo (an illit. word for bemoccolo), birin- 
cello (for brincello), chirintana and chirinzana (an old-fash¬ 
ioned danse), Ciriatto (a devil’s name in Dante, Inferno IX), 
ciriegia (obsolete for ciliegia), cirimbraccola (illit. and more 
com. than cimbraccola, “donna sciatta e becera,” cf. cimbrac- 
colo, “ciondole, straccio”), cirimonia (and cilimonia, illit. for 
cerimonia), cirindello (pop. for brincello), cirindonia (in 
Buonarroti’s Fiera, meaning the same as cirindone, “donna 
sciatta,” the latter a Sienese word in Temistocle G-radi), ghiri- 
bizzo (and sghiribizzo, schiribizzo), schiribilla (a bird), ghiri- 
goro, girigogolo, girimeo (the latter the name of a game; all 
the last three containing the idea of girare), scirignata (and 
scigrinata, “colpo di taglio” in Sacchetti), siringa (and sci- 
ringa), tiriaca (“triaca,” English treacle), tiribussio, tiritom- 
bola, tiritessi, tiritosta (the last four all made up from tirare). 
(2) Biracchio (< ?—“pezzo lacero”), birbigoni ( < ?—“spe¬ 
cie di uva”), biroccio (birotium 1 ), biroldo (< ?birotulus,—a 
Pistoiese word 2 ), birracchio (< ?“vitello dal 1° al 2° anno,” a 
peasant word), birroviere (for berroviere, Berruyer, a perver¬ 
sion by analogy of birro, perhaps), chirato (< ? =“carato, 
azione”), ciramella (< ?“cennamelia,” in Folgore da S. Grimi- 
§23. Note 1. See AG VII 410, note 5, 516, under bert, ZRPh XVIII 
234. Ascoli says that we should expect birogio or birozzo in Tuscany. 
Cf. English barouche. 
2. Balordo has the same meaning and possibly the same etymology: 
cf. §25, note 5. 
