ARABIC-L: LING: More on Mafia

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Date: 26 Apr 1999
From: Paul Auchterlonie <J.P.C.Auchterlonie at exeter.ac.uk>
Subject: More on Mafia

Although published in 1972, Giovan Battista Pellegrini's Gli arabismi
nelle lingue neolatine is still a standard reference for Italian
(including Sicilian) words derived from Arabic. Pellegrini lists five
possible etymologies for "mafia" including the Arabic root `Ayn Fa
Waw.

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Paul Auchterlonie
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University of Exeter
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Exeter EX4 4PX
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