uccello

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Italian word uccello comes from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwis (Bird.)

*h₂éwis (Proto-Indo-European)

Bird.

*awis (Proto-Italic)

Bird.

avis (Latin)

(figuratively) omen, portent. A bird.

*avicella (Latin)

*avicellus (Vulgar Latin)

aucellus (Late Latin)

uccello (Italian)

(slang, vulgar) willy (British), peter (US), dick; (the penis). Bird.

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