Word Origin Summary

Pulecenella is attested in Neapolitan. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• Punchinello

  English · borrowed from

• Pulcinell

  German · derived from

• Polichinelle

  French · borrowed from

• polichinelo

  Portuguese · derived from

• Policinello

  German · derived from

• Pulcinella

  Italian · borrowed from

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