abba

(dialectal) Alternative form of abi (“bee”)


penna

From Latin penna, from Proto-Italic *petnā, from Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥ ~ pth₂én- (“feather, wing”), derived from the root *peth₂- (“to fly”).


tinta

From Catalan and Spanish tinta, from Latin tīncta, derived from tingō (“I wet; I colour, dye”).

(uncountable) ink (dark fluid ejected by squid etc.)


grogu

sdc-adj

grogu (feminine singular groga, masculine and feminine plural groghi)

groga (feminine singular)
groghi (feminine masculine plural)

Possibly borrowed from Catalan groc, from Latin crocus, from Ancient Greek κρόκος (krókos).


murru

murru (feminine singular murra, masculine and feminine plural murri)

murra (feminine singular)
murri (feminine masculine plural)


direttori

head

direttori m (invariable, feminine direttora)

From Late Latin dīrector, dīrectōrem, derived from Latin dīrēctus, perfect passive participle of dīrigō (“I lay, arrange; I direct, steer”).


zeru

From earlier zelu, from Classical Latin caelum, from Proto-Italic *kailom, from Proto-Indo-European *kóh₂i-lom (“whole”), derived from a root *koh₂i-, *kéy-.

No abèmmu aùddu figlióri, cussì la vuruntai di Déu di lu Zéru

2013 September 27, Ignazio Sanna, “L’ulthimi dì d’un inutiri avvinì [The last days of a pointless future]”, in Ignazio Sanna - Prosa e poesia in sassarese:

We haven't had any children: such [was] the will of God of Heaven.

(religion, also in the plural) heaven (abode of deities)


branu

From Vulgar Latin *vērānum, from *tempus vērānum (“springtime”), derived from Latin vēr (“spring”).

Lu branu a me no piazi

1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Primabéra [Springtime]”, in La poesia di l'althri (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 13:


nebi

From Latin nix, nivem, from Proto-Italic *sniks, from Proto-Indo-European *snéygʷʰs, derived from the root *sneygʷʰ- (“to snow”).

E si tralfiguresi dananzi a eddis. E la so' faccia rilplindisi cumenti lu soli: e li so' viltiri si fesini bianchi cumenti la nebi.

1866, chapter XVII, in Giovanni Spano, transl., L'ebagneliu sigundu S. Matteju [The Gospel according to St. Matthew] (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), London, translation of Evangelium secundum Matthaeum, verse 2, page 65:

And he was transfigured in front of them. And his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as snow.

Arimani una dì ch'éra un incantu,
e abà tutt'è bïancu, è fiucchendi,
e nèbi n'à ficchidu più d'un pàimu.

1956, Salvator Ruju, “Manzanu di nèbi [Snow morning]”, in Agnireddu e Rusina; republished as Caterina Ruju, editor, Sassari véccia e nóba, Nuoro: Ilisso edizioni, 2001, →ISBN, page 95:

Yesterday was a wonderful day, and now everything is white, it's snowing, and more than a palm of snow has fallen.

Dananzi a l’occi abaraggiu un paesi
cuberthu da la nebi
digussì intatta e fini che in pintura.

1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Guasi una fantasia [Almost a fantasy]”, in La poesia di l'althri [The poetry of others] (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 135:

I'll have in front of my eyes a country covered by snow as intact and fine as in a picture.


nieddu

sdc-adj

nieddu (feminine singular niedda, masculine and feminine plural nieddi)

niedda (feminine singular)
nieddi (feminine masculine plural)

Nè pa lu to’ cabbu hai a giurà, palchì no poi fà un pelu biancu, o nieddu.

1866, chapter V, in Giovanni Spano, transl., L'ebagneliu sigundu S. Matteju [The Gospel according to St. Matthew] (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), London, translation of Evangelium secundum Matthaeum, verse 36, page 16:

And you will not swear by your head, for you cannot make even one hair white or black.

Sia lu me’ colpu viltiddu
D’un sumbreri pampanuddu
Mezzu biancu e mezzu nieddu
Mannu cant’un caniltreddu

c. 19ᵗʰ century, anonymous author, “[untitled song]”, in Giovanni Spano, editor, Canti popolari in dialetto sassarese [Popular songs in Sassarese dialect], volume 2 (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Cagliari, published 1873, song 64, page 158:

May my body be clothed with a fancy hat, half white and half black, as big as a basket

La mòscha virinòsa,
la ruia, la bïanca e la nïédda,
è trabanèndi finza lu zaibéddu,
di tant’iscillaradi.

1957, Salvator Ruju, “Don Paschuari nósthru si lamènta [Our Don Pasquale complains]”, in Sassari véccia e nóba [Old and new Sassari]; republished as Caterina Ruju, editor, Sassari véccia e nóba, Nuoro: Ilisso edizioni, 2001, →ISBN, page 194:

The venomous fly, the red [one], the white [one], and the black [one], is penetrating even in the brain of many wicked ones.

[…] È nieddu che la notti
lu me’ pientu ma cuaddu si rimani
a l’althri e a me matessi.

1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Sobr’a lu taurinu [Upon the table]”, in La poesia di l'althri [The poetry of others], Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 33:

My crying is as black as night, but it remains hidden to others and myself.


asulu

asulu (feminine singular asula, masculine and feminine plural asuli)

asula (feminine singular)
asuli (feminine masculine plural)

Borrowed from Spanish azul, from Old Galician-Portuguese azur (“blue”), from Arabic لَازُوَرْد (lāzuward, “lapis lazuli”), from Persian لاجورد (lâjvard, “lapis lazuli”). Doublet of azurru.


verdhi

From Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Classical Latin viridis, derived from vireō. Cognate with Sardinian birde and Gallurese veldi.

Vèrdhi e rànziga che féri,
à lu córi creba creba;
si cridia parch'era ricca
di pudemmi bè imbischà

1956, Salvator Ruju, “Ma nò la vogliu mari”, in Agnireddu e Rusina [Old and new Sassari]; republished as Caterina Ruju, editor, Sassari véccia e nóba, Nuoro: Ilisso edizioni, 2001, →ISBN, page 77:

Green and bitter as bile, her heart is dying of anger; she thought, because she was rich, that she could well capture me

Di la ziddài natiba i lu so’ cori
diricaddu una mamma s’ammintaba
ch’era verdhi e fiuridda che giardhinu.

1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Un cuntaddu [A tale]”, in La poesia di l'althri [The poetry of others] (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 47:

About the native town, in her delicate heart, a mother remembered it was as green and flowery as a garden.


verdhi

La tèrra, in dugna càbura, un incantu
di vèrdhi e fiòri.
Rusì, e tu cantabi.

1956, Salvator Ruju, “L’ipìgura [Lavender]”, in Agnireddu e Rusina; republished as Caterina Ruju, editor, Sassari véccia e nóba, Nuoro: Ilisso edizioni, 2001, →ISBN, page 118:

All around, the ground was a marvel of greenery and flowers, Rosina, and you were singing.


grìgiu

sdc-adj

grìgiu (feminine singular grìgia, masculine and feminine plural grigi)

grìgia (feminine singular)
grigi (feminine masculine plural)

Possibly borrowed from Italian grigio, from Frankish *grīs, from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz.


azurru

azurru (feminine singular azurra, masculine and feminine plural azurri)

azurra (feminine singular)
azurri (feminine masculine plural)

Ultimately from Arabic لَازُوَرْد (lāzuward, “lapis lazuli”), from Persian لاجورد (lâjvard, “lapis lazuli”). Doublet of asulu.


rùiu

rùiu (feminine singular rùia, masculine and feminine plural rui)

rùia (feminine singular)
rui (feminine masculine plural)

From Classical Latin rubeus (“red; reddish”), derived from rubeō (“I redden”).

So li me’ innamuraddi
¶
Che dui meligranaddi
Che dui aranzi so rui.

c. 19ᵗʰ century, anonymous author, “[untitled song]”, in Giovanni Spano, editor, Canti popolari in dialetto sassarese, volume 2 (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Cagliari, published 1873, song 44, pages 131–132:

My two lovers are like two pomegranates, they're red like two oranges.


biaittu

biaittu (feminine singular biaitta, masculine and feminine plural biaitti)

biaitta (feminine singular)
biaitti (feminine masculine plural)

Borrowed from Italian biadetto, derived from a term of Germanic origin, from Proto-Germanic *blēwaz.

Lu rumasinu in fiòri / è cu l’ócci biaitti, / èddu puru già gudìa / a vidétti, a intinditti.

1956, Salvator Ruju, “Ahi ahi chissu sirénziu! [Ah, this silence!]”, in Agnireddu e Rusina; republished as Caterina Ruju, editor, Sassari véccia e nóba, Nuoro: Ilisso edizioni, 2001, →ISBN, page 114:

The rosemary in bloom has blue eyes; he, too, was enjoying looking at you, listening to you.

[…] un biddisò […] / brilla i lu sòri e si zi torra a boru / sempri più in althu i lu zeru biaittu.

1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Cunfini [Borders]”, in La poesia di l'althri (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 17:

A sparrow shines in the sun, and flies back to it, higher and higher in the blue sky.


ghìsgiu

Probably from Catalan guix, from Latin gypsum, from Ancient Greek γύψος (gúpsos), of unknown further origin.

chalk (piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)


isthasgioni

From Latin statiōnem, accusative of statiō (“outpost; station; watch; position”), derived from the verb stō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-. Doublet of isthazioni.

l’antigga primabéra, più cruderi
di tutti l’isthasgioni
acchì zi torra a vidda e poi z’ammazza.

1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Primabéra [Spring]”, in La poesia di l'althri [The poetry of others], Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 13:

Ancient Spring, [the] cruelest of all seasons, for it takes us back to life, and then kills us.


inverru

From Vulgar Latin *hīnbernum, a modification of Latin hībernum (tempus).

Prigheddi poi, chi no dèbiaddi fuggì d’inverru, o di sàbbaddu.

1866 [1770s], Antonio Martini, chapter XXIV, in Giovanni Spano, transl., L'ebagneliu sigundu S. Matteju [The Gospel according to St. Matthew], London, translation of Il santo Vangelo di Gesù Cristo secondo Matteo (in Italian), verse 20, page 97:

Pray that your flight may not be in winter or on a Sabbath.

Poi, pa’ tuttu lu freddu di l’inverru,
a fammi cumpagnia i la tristhura
soru abaraggiu chiddu pinsamentu

1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Accannu [This year]”, in La poesia di l'althri [The poetry of others], Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 55:

Then, in all of winter’s cold, I'll only have this thought to keep me company in the sadness

No abé timòri si torrani li nui,
eu saraggiu da abà a datti curaggiu;
vedarai: passarà chisth’althru invèrru

2010 October 2, Ignazio Sanna, “Un althru invèrru [Another winter]”, in Ignazio Sanna - Prosa e poesia in sassarese:

Don't be afraid if clouds return; from now on, I'll be here to give you strength. You'll see: this new winter will pass


isthiu

d’isthiu

Dall’alburu di la figga apprendiddi chilta parabula: candu li so’ rami sò già tennari e ilpuntani li fogli, cunnisciddi, chi l’iltiu è vizinu

1866 [1770s], Antonio Martini, “Cap. XXIV”, in Giovanni Spano, transl., L'ebagneliu sigundu S. Matteju [The Gospel according to St. Matthew], London, translation of Il santo Vangelo di Gesù Cristo secondo Matteo (in Italian), verse 32, page 99:

And from the tree of the fig learn this parable: when its branches are already tender, and the leaves come out, you know that the summer is near

Chi bèdda nótti pàsida d’isthiu!
L’isthelli pàrini ócci di lu zéru.

1957, Salvator Ruju, “Lu grìgliuru d’ignòr’Annamaria [Missus Annamaria's cricket]”, in Sassari véccia e nóba [Old and new Sassari]; republished as Caterina Ruju, editor, Sassari véccia e nóba, Nuoro: Ilisso edizioni, 2001, →ISBN, page 184:

What a peaceful summer night! The stars look like eyes of the sky.

E sobr’a lu taurinu unì pusaddi
tuttu l’isthiu zi semmu, so’ caggendi
abà li fogli di l’àiburi […]

And upon the table, where we've been sitting all summer, now the trees' leaves are falling

Ma l’isthiu… ah, chi beddu l’isthiu

2013 September 27, Ignazio Sanna, “L’ulthimi dì d’un inutiri avvinì [The last days of a pointless future]”, in Ignazio Sanna - Prosa e poesia in sassarese:


attugnu

A semi-learned borrowing — reshaped similarly to Italian autunno — from Spanish otoño, from Classical Latin autumnus, from earlier auctumnus, of uncertain further origin.

In chisthu attugnu chi pianu,
pianu si n’anda

1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Santuaini [October]”, in La poesia di l'althri (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 59:

In this autumn, that slowly, slowly goes away

Tébiu è ‘nde noi l’atugnu
da l’aggrumàddi nui,
da li pàmpini rui.

2009 May 9, Ignazio Sanna, “L’atugnu inde noi [Autumn around our parts]”, in Ignazio Sanna - Prosa e poesia in sassarese:

Mild around our parts is the autumn, with massed clouds, with red vine leaves.


primmabera

PIE word
 *wósr̥
Likely borrowed from Italian primavera, from Late Latin prīma vēra, alternative form of prīmum vēr (“early spring”).

Cabidannu è cussì vibu in chistha terra
di pianu e li pàschuri verdhi
cumenti in primabéra sò li baddi
di l’isuri suriani.

1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “A l’ipicciadda di lu sori [At sunrise]”, in La poesia di l'althri [The poetry of others] (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 177:

September is so lively in this level land, and the pastures green like the valleys of the sunny islands are during springtime.


isthaddiari

Likely borrowed from Logudorese istadiale (“summer (attributive)”, adjective), derived from istade (“summer”), from Latin aestās, aestātem (“summer”).

bor+

L’isthadiari aràmidu
lu rifrigeriu aisetta
di un timpurari

1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Diario [Diary]”, in La poesia di l'althri [The poetry of others] (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 87:

The dry summer waits for the coolness of a rainstorm