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- Neapolitan · derived fromcalamad
- English todaygalamah
From Neapolitan calamad, compare Italian and Sicilian calamari. Doublet of calamari. Other words attributed to Italian Americans, like gabagool and rigot, also exhibit voicing of /p t k/ in the source language, and elision of final -i, -o and -a.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.