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Help[Surname] Re: Pellicore
in reply to a message by Tanya
It is a local surname in Southern ITALY, extremely rare.
Not more than 10 families in CALABRIA, near Cosenza,and in SICILY, in Catania.
This surname is quite near to a greek surname PALIKARAS so like quite a few sicilian or calabrian surnames could derive fro greek dialects still spoken in some areas of Southern Italy.
I ignore the meaning.
See the italian white pages:
www.paginebianche.it (google)
and then bisdes the surname write CALABRIA and SICILIA or the initial letters of COSENZA, CS and CATANIA, CT
Not more than 10 families in CALABRIA, near Cosenza,and in SICILY, in Catania.
This surname is quite near to a greek surname PALIKARAS so like quite a few sicilian or calabrian surnames could derive fro greek dialects still spoken in some areas of Southern Italy.
I ignore the meaning.
See the italian white pages:
www.paginebianche.it (google)
and then bisdes the surname write CALABRIA and SICILIA or the initial letters of COSENZA, CS and CATANIA, CT
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Pallikari means "brave man", and it does look close to Pellicore. Considering the large number of Greek words in the dialects of Southern Italy (ancient Magna Graecia) it has to be a candidate.
I was thinking it might be a dialect word related to peliccia, "fur", or pelle, "skin". - perhaps a dialect word for an animal-skinner.
I was thinking it might be a dialect word related to peliccia, "fur", or pelle, "skin". - perhaps a dialect word for an animal-skinner.
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