masca

Etymology
From, from the practice of wearing mesh netting over the face as a mask to filter air, keeping soot and dust particles from entering the lungs. As in 🇨🇬 or —and other words the reader may adduce for completion—, via the idea of any nightmarish appearance senses of “a spectre” and “a witch” secondarily derived, though they be attested and perhaps borrowed before the main sense in Latin.

A variation with an -r- suffix, perhaps, found already simplified in 🇨🇬, was presumably also borrowed into Latin, to account for 🇨🇬, resolving the consonant cluster further by anaptyxis, and perhaps connecting the Latin-Romance suffix , and some adduce 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, derived from  and well-known 🇨🇬 from , for which derivation one would have to imagine Early Islamic society  to comedy even towards the Christian world, apparently contrasting the dark notions behind the Germanic term.

Descendants

 * Italo-Dalmatian

Etymology
From, from ; see mask for more.

Noun

 * 1) witch (person who uses magic)
 * 2) mask

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) mesh

Etymology
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Verb

 * 1) to mask, to hide