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Pivetta is specific to the area that includes the provinces of Treviso, Venice and Pordenone, Pivetti would appear to be specific to the Modena area, Modena and Carpi and the Modena area, with perhaps a secondary branch in the Milanese and Bergamo areas, Pivi has a stock in Rimini and Sant'Arcangelo di Romagna, in Novi di Modena and Cesena, should derive, directly or through hypocorisms, from the term piva or pivo which have both the meaning of wind musical instrument, the etymological root is the same as that of pipe which, deriving from high German word pfifa (whistle, whistle, fife), initially meant its own wind instrument, either girl or boy from which for example the word pivello, another possible origin and from nicknames related to the term pivetto (piviere, bird trampoliere marsh) .
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