Etymology

Peluso

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Italian Peluso ← Sicilian Pilusu
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The story

  1. Sicilian · derived frompilusu“hairy”
  2. Sicilian · derived fromPilusu
  3. Italian · borrowed fromPeluso
  4. English todayPeluso

Borrowed from Italian Peluso, Italianization of Sicilian Pilusu, from Sicilian pilusu (“hairy”), from pilu + -usu.

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