furmentu

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese fermento yeast.

Noun

furmentu

1. (Santiago) ferment, yeast

Sicilian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin frūmentum. Cognate with Italian frumento.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fuɾˈmɛn.tu/
  • (Palermo) IPA^(key): [fʊɪ̯mˈmiɛ̯n̪.t̪ʊ]

Noun

furmentu m (uncountable)

1. wheat

References

• Traina, Antonino (1868) “furmentu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, pages 1769–1770