Schlatter—The Development of the Towel. 
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Puglia, for Apuglia; rena, for arena 9 ; resta, for aresta, from 
arista ; roganza, for arroganza; sala, from axale (assale is also 
modern); semblea (and sembrea), for assemblea; sensa, for 
ascensa, ascensione; stuzia and stuzica, for astuzia (the C of 
the second form by analogy of stuzzicare or tbe ending -ica) ; 
sugna, =“grasso dei visceri del mai-ale,” from axungia (axis 
-ung(u)ere) ; velmaria, for avemmaria, with dissimilation of 
M to L; versiera, = a la moglie del diavolo, 77 for avversiera; 
zienda, for azienda. 
(b) Biondo (if from *ablundu— 1 <*albundu-) ; bruotino 
(— a er ba medicinale, 77 a Sienese word; Florentine abruo- 
tano), from abrotonus (and abrotonum), d/fyorovov ; 10 bruscello 
(= a acqua gelata suite piante 77 ), from arboscello, with previous 
metathesis of the B 11 ; cagiu, for acagiu (cf. French acajou); 
labaustro, for alabastro; lambicco 12 ; leatico, for aleatico; loc- 
caione, locco, from aluccus 13 , -the usual word is allocco; mira- 
glia, for ammiraglio; moscino, if Caix 7 etymology is accepted,- 
< Arabic almesmas 14 ; Pollinaro, for Apollinare; rabesco, for 
arabesco; ragno, from araneu-; rancio (=“colore dell 7 
arancia 77 ) 15 ; rematico, for aromatico 16 ; Bimini, from Latin 
Arlminum; ristocratico, for aristocratico; spar ago (sparagio, 
spargo) for asparago; strolabio, for astrolabio; strologo, for 
9. The two words arena and rena have different meanings to-day: 
rena = (approximately) sabbia; arena has been readopted as a liter¬ 
ary word, = “anfiteatro, et sim.” 
10. The Latin form was feminine, hence: (il) la abrotonu(s)> la 
bruotono, and finally change in gender. 
11. See Caix, Studi, No. 227; cf. §61 (c). This word also means “rap- 
presentazione o farsa popolare”, from the custom of singing May 
songs and fastening a branch to the sweetheart’s door. 
12. The forms alambico, alembicco, allimbicco, elembico, limbiccare, et 
sim., also occur; for the derivation, see the Oxford Dictionary, under 
alembic: “French alambic, adapted (ultimately) from Arab. al- 
anblq.Aphetized as early as the fifteenth century to lembeck, 
limbeck; full form scarcely appears again until the seventeenth cen¬ 
tury.” 
13. See Ducange under alucus and alucari. 
14. Caix, Studi, No. 152. 
15. The noun regularly has the vowel, arancia; narancia Is also 
found. From Sandskrit nagaranga. 
16. The E in re’matico is due to a confusion with the prefix re-, ri-, 
or perhaps the word was confused with reumatico, which, in the 13th 
century was sometimes reduced to rematico. 
