Etymology

Either a borrowing from Middle High German zolle, or an earlier borrowing from Lombardic scolla, zolla, (modern German Scholle), from Proto-Germanic *skaljō (compare West Frisian skyl ‎(“peel, rind”), Dutch schil ‎(“peel, skin, rink”), Low German Schell ‎(“shell, scale”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- ‎(“to split, cleave”) (compare Irish scelec ‎(“pebble”), Latin silex ‎(“pebble, flint”), siliqua ‎(“pod”), Old Church Slavonic сколика ‎(skolika, “shell”)).

Pronunciation

• zòlla
• IPA^(key): /ˈtsɔlla/