baccalà

Etymology
From, of origin. Possibly from, referring to the way cod were split and dried on wooden sticks.

If the element is a metathesis of  (compare 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬 from 🇨🇬), then the original form of the word could have been, maybe meaning "large-headed fish" (cf. Ibero- words, such as Spanish , , from ).

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) salt cod, stockfish
 * 2)  a foolish person