FromLatinēricius(“hedgehog”). Cognate withItalianriccio.Doublet ofrizza.

rizzu m (pluralrizzi)

1. hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus)

   fari comu lurizzu ―todeceive with humble manners, to thenbetray orassault (literally, “to act like thehedgehog”)

2. sea urchin (Echinoidea, particularlyEchinus esculentus)

   Synonym:rizza

3. husk(of a chestnut)

• → Albanian:rric —Arbëresh
• → Italiot Greek:[Term?](/⁠ríttso⁠/,“hedgehog”)

rizzu (feminine singularrizza,masculine and feminine pluralrizzi)

1. curly(of hair or a person)

• Traina, Antonino (1868) “rizzu”, inNuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published2020,page3497
• AIS:Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] –map 1292: “il riccio” – onnavigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

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