mi'

Apocopic form of mira (“look!”), 2ⁿᵈ-person singular imperative form of mirà (“to look; to look at”).

— «O ba’, m’abaristia isciubaraddu lu trabagliu.»
— «Cosa? No vi credu, no pò assé! Mih, chi finamenta ti sei dizzisu a dizott’anni: era ora![»]

2009 October 6, Ignazio Sanna, “Li facultai d’abà (ossia: cumenti fa dinà in dì d’oggi) [The faculties of today (or: How to make money nowadays)]”, in Ignazio Sanna - Prosa e poesia in sassarese:

— "Dad, I think I've chosen a job."
— "What? I don't believe it, it can't be! What do you know: at eighteen, you've finally made up your mind. About time!

used to call attention to an event as a cause of some emotion; would you look at that!, well well well..., what do you know


-esu

Likely from a Vulgar Latin *-ēnsus, 2ⁿᵈ-conjugation variant of Classical Latin -ēnsis (“of or pertaining to a place”), of uncertain origin.

inh

-ese (forming adjectives and nouns describing things characteristic of a particular place)


in cantu a

Quanto poi a quel giorno, ed a quell’ora, neſſuno la ſa, neppure gli Angeli del cielo, eccetto il ſolo Padre.

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 36, page 99:

And as for that day, and that time, no one knows, not even the angels of heaven; but only the Father [does].


pa' cantu

Sassari nósthra nò li piazìa
pa cantu bèdda […]

1957, Salvator Ruju, “Sacchittu lu trampósu [Sacchittu the swindler]”, in Sassari véccia e nóba [Old and new Sassari]; republished as Caterina Ruju, editor, Sassari véccia e nóba, Nuoro: Ilisso edizioni, 2001, →ISBN, page 302:

He didn't like our Sassari, although [it is] beautiful


cantu a

Cantu a te… Va’ in bon’ora: sei lìbaru! E ringraziéggia chi soggu córi móddu!

2009 May 9, Ignazio Sanna, “Fòra d’un lèpparu chi no vuria murì in bòtti [Fable of a hare who didn't want to die in his shoes]”, in Ignazio Sanna - Prosa e poesia in sassarese:

As for you… go in peace: you're free! And be thankful that I'm soft-hearted!

Alternative form of in cantu a (“as for, as to, regarding, concerning”)


bè bè

Luzì, chi ni pènsi? A di’ la viriddài, eu ni soggu isthràccu di passà chisthi dui dì chi zi rimanini a cumbattà cun d’una terra chi già da tempu abèmmu truppiàddu be’ be’ oramai.

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:

What do you think, Lucia? To be honest, I'm tired [at the idea] of passing these two days we have left fighting against land that's already been thoroughly exploited for a long time by now.

very well, thoroughly (to a very significant degree)


fà bè

Ma quanto è da più un uomo d’una pecora? E’ adunque lecito di far benefizj in giorno di ſabato.

1866 [1770s], Antonio Martini, chapter XII, 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 12, page 42:

But how much better is a man than a sheep? Therefore it is already allowed to do good in the day of Sabbath.

Ma io vi dico: Amate i voﬅri nemici, fate del bene a coloro, che vi perſeguitano

1866 [1770s], Antonio Martini, chapter V, 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 44, page 17:

But I say to you: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you

to do good (act virtuously) [with a ‘someone’]


innommu

Olio ſparſo è il tuo nome: per queﬅo le fanciulle ti amarono.

1863 [1770s], Antonio Martini, chapter I, in Giovanni Spano, transl., Lu càntiggu de li càntigghi di Salamoni [Solomon's canticle of canticles], London, translation of Il cantico de' cantici (in Italian), verse 2, page 5:

Your name is spread oil; for this the maidens loved you.

No aggiu be’ cumprésu ma mi pari un innòmmu chi no si dazi nemmancu a li cani.

2020 March 25, Ignazio Sanna, “Di nommu fozzu Asdrubale [My name is Asdrubale]”, in Ignazio Sanna - Prosa e poesia in sassarese:

I didn't quite get it, but to me it seems like a name you wouldn't give to a dog.


Gabinu

From Late Latin Gabīnus, possibly derived from Classical Latin Gabiī, name of an ancient city in Latium.

Gabinu méiu, e chi ti pòssu dì?
paràuri nò n’aggiu

1957, Salvator Ruju, “Figgiurendi a mè matèssi in d’un “brunzu” di G. Tilocca [Looking at myself in a "bronze" by G. Tilocca]”, in Sassari véccia e nóba [Old and new Sassari]; republished as Caterina Ruju, editor, Sassari véccia e nóba, Nuoro: Ilisso edizioni, 2001, →ISBN, page 237:

My dear Gabinu, what can I tell you? I have no words

a male given name from Late Latin, equivalent to Logudorese Gabinu, Nuorese Gabinu, Campidanese Gavinu, Gallurese Gavinu, or Italian Gavino; diminutive form Bainzu


fà di nommu

Di nommu fozzu Asdrubale

2020 March 25, Ignazio Sanna, Ignazio Sanna - Prosa e poesia in sassarese:

(intransitive) to have a particular name, to be called


Bainzu

From Late Latin Gabīnius, derived from Gabīnus, possibly derived from Classical Latin Gabiī, name of an ancient city in Latium.

E, in mézu a la curòna,
Santu Bainzu con Santu Nigóra
emblema sò di tanta santidai.

1957, Salvator Ruju, “La funtana di sant’Antòni di E. Tavolara [E. Tavolara's "Fountain of St. Anthony"]”, in Sassari véccia e nóba [Old and new Sassari]; republished as Caterina Ruju, editor, Sassari véccia e nóba, Nuoro: Ilisso edizioni, 2001, →ISBN, page 254:

And, in the middle of the crown, Saint Gavinus, with Saint Nicholas, are an emblem of so much sanctity.

a diminutive of the male given name Gabinu, from Late Latin, equivalent to Logudorese Bainzu, Nuorese Gabinzu, Campidanese Baìngiu, or Gallurese Baignu


fà d'innommu

A carthi pèssi diggu di ciamàmmi Lino ma d’innòmmu fòzzu Asdrubale.

In a tight spot, I say I'm called Lino, but my name is Asdrubale.

(intransitive) Alternative form of fà di nommu (“to have a particular name, to be called”)


Isthintinu

→ Italian: Stintino

→ Sardinian: Istintinu

E l’Isthintinu? Cuiubadu nóbu,
canti dì bèddi allóra vi passési
cu la duzzura di l’amòr in córi
e l’ócci bèddi d’una cara bruna.

1957, Salvator Ruju, “Chiss’isthriscia di prata ròsa e òru! [That stripe of pink and golden silver!]”, in Sassari véccia e nóba [Old and new Sassari]; republished as Caterina Ruju, editor, Sassari véccia e nóba, Nuoro: Ilisso edizioni, 2001, →ISBN, page 345:

And [what about] Stintino? So many days I spent there back then, when I was engaged, with the sweetness of love in my heart, and the beautiful eyes of a swarthy face.

Alternative form of Isthintini, often used absolutely as l'Isthintinu


Franzischu

From Medieval Latin Franciscus, derived from Classical Latin Francia (“land of the Franks, Francia”).

der

Santu Franzischu, candu carasòri
ed è l’Avemaria
e prégu, a me mi pari
chi i l’èba di la bazza
vi sia la lùzi bèdda di lu zéru.

1957, Salvator Ruju, “Santu Franzischu di la funtana [Saint Francis of the fountain]”, in Sassari véccia e nóba [Old and new Sassari]; republished as Caterina Ruju, editor, Sassari véccia e nóba, Nuoro: Ilisso edizioni, 2001, →ISBN, page 246:

Saint Francis, when it's sunset, and it's the Angelus, and I'm praying, it seems to me the beautiful light of the sky is in the water of the basin.

a male given name from Medieval Latin, equivalent to Logudorese Frantziscu, Italian Francesco, Spanish Francisco, or French François


Isthintini

PIE word
 *h₁én
From isthintini, plural of isthintinu (“intestine”), from Classical Latin intestīnum (“entrails, innards”), nominalization of intestīnus (“internal”, adjective).

inh

A city and commune of the province of Sassari, Sardinia, Italy, often used absolutely as l'Isthintini


isthintinesu

sdc-adj

isthintinesu (feminine singular isthintinesa, masculine and feminine plural isthintinesi)

isthintinesa (feminine singular)
isthintinesi (feminine masculine plural)

Isthintini (“Stintino”) + -esu (“-ese, of a particular place”)


isthintinesu

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isthintinesu m (plural isthintinesi, feminine isthintinesa)

isthintinesi (plural)
isthintinesa (feminine)

native or inhabitant of Stintino (male or of unspecified gender)


isthintinesu

the dialect of the Sassarese language spoken in the area of Stintino


isthintinu

PIE word
 *h₁én
Inherited from Classical Latin intestīnum (“entrails, innards”), nominalization of intestīnus (“internal”, adjective).


nommu

PIE word
 *h₁nómn̥
Inherited from Classical Latin nōmen, from Proto-Italic *nomen, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ (“name”).

E mutogli il nome, e chiamollo in lingua Egiziana Salvatore del mondo.

1863 [1770s], Antonio Martini, chapter XLI, in Giovanni Spano, transl., L'iltoria di Giuseppi l'ebreu [The story of Joseph the Jewish], London, translation of Il Libro della Genesi (in Italian), verse 45, page 26:

And he changed his name, and called him in the Egyptian language, "Savior of the world".

Si m’amessi tu coltanti
Comu già ti vogliu bè,
Tu darilti solu a me
Nomu di fideli amanti.

c. 19ᵗʰ century, anonymous author, “[untitled song]”, in Giovanni Spano, editor, Canti popolari in dialetto sassarese, volume 1 (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Cagliari, published 1873, song 31, page 119:

If you loved as consistently as I love you, you would give the name of faithful lover to me only.

O me’ figlioru, t’hani incabaddu l’occi,
fatt’a pezzi le mani pa’ un nommu da tradì.

1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Lauda (29 abriri 1945) [Praise (April 29, 1945)]”, in La poesia di l'althri [The poetry of others] (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 195:

O my son, they dug out your eyes, [and] broken your hands, for a name to betray.

Elisabetta? Ma ti pari un nommu sardhu? Nooo, tu no sei sincaru. Etta è la miminaddùra d’Efisiètta, maccu!

Elisabetta? Does that look like a Sardinian name to you?! No, you're weird. Etta is short for Efisietta, you nutjob!


noltru

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noltru (feminine singular noltra, plural noltri)

noltra (feminine singular)
noltri (plural)

Archaic spelling of nosthru (“our, of ours”).


noltru

noltru m (feminine singular noltra, plural noltri)


vosthè

Borrowed from Spanish vusted, from a contraction of vuestra merced (“your grace”).

Digghia vosthè si una famiria cument’è la nósthra dubi’assé disthrutta da la manìa di cazzià di vói òmmini: digghia!

You tell us if a family like ours must be destroyed by this hunting frenzy of you men. You tell us!

(formal, now rare) you (second-person singular)


vuruntai

From earlier voluntai, likely from Old Ligurian volontai (modern Genoese Ligurian voentæ), from Classical Latin voluntās, voluntātem (“will; desire; disposition”). Compare Gallurese vuluntai.

der

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

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


dà rasgioni

Literally, “to give motive”. Compare Italian avere ragione.

Or io vi fo ſapere, che di qualunque parola ozioſa, che avran detto gli uomini, ne renderan conto nel dì del giudizio.

1866 [1770s], Antonio Martini, chapter XII, 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 36, page 45:

But I tell you, that men shall answer for every idle word they have said, in the day of judgment.

to answer for [with di ‘someone/something’]


abé rasgioni

Literally, “to have motive”. Compare Italian avere ragione.

Dimmi, dì, s’aggiu rasgioni
Sulpirà e di pignì

c. 19ᵗʰ century, G. Cossu Solinas, “[untitled song]”, in Giovanni Spano, editor, Canti popolari in dialetto sassarese, volume 1 (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Cagliari, published 1873, song 22, page 105:

Tell me, tell me if I have a reason to sigh and weep

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see abé, rasgioni.

È véru, àni rasgiòni,
ma è megliu a nò nascì.

1956, Salvator Ruju, “Anniversariu [Anniversary]”, in Agnireddu e Rusina [Agnireddu and Rusina]; republished as Caterina Ruju, editor, Sassari véccia e nóba, Nuoro: Ilisso edizioni, 2001, →ISBN, page 124:

It's true, they’re right; but not being born is better.

Me’ nibóddi ha propiu rasgiòni… Chistha faccia è d’un santu chi no è ancóra santu

2015 May 31, Ignazio Sanna, “La paristhòria di lu santu óssu di lu barracòccu [The fable of the sacred apricot stone]”, in Ignazio Sanna - Prosa e poesia in sassarese:

Yes, my nephew is right... This is the face of a saint who isn't a saint yet


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.


rasgioni

Likely through Sardinian (compare Campidanese raxoni), from Classical Latin ratiō, ratiōnem (“reason, reasoning”).

È rasgioni naturali
Chi moltra in te lu difettu
Di no abè nisciun’affettu

c. 19ᵗʰ century, G. Cossu Solinas, “[untitled song]”, in Giovanni Spano, editor, Canti popolari in dialetto sassarese, volume 2 (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Cagliari, published 1873, song 48, page 140:

It's natural reason that shows your flaw of lacking all affection

A miliardhi sò passaddi l’anni
e l’ommu, fattu sìmiri a Deiu
di figura e di menti,
senza mai pasu, cu la so’ rasgioni,
[…]
i lu zeru sirenu d’una notti
di santuaìni, althri luzi z’ha posthu

1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “A l’althra luna [To the other moon]”, in La poesia di l'althri [The poetry of others] (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 197:

Years have passed, in billions; and man, made similar to God in aspect and mind, without rest, with his reason, […] placed in the clear sky of an October night other lights

E conducetemi il voﬅro fratello più piccolo, affinchè io poſſa eſſere chiarito di quel, che dite, e non ſiate condannati a morire.

1863 [1770s], Antonio Martini, chapter XLII, in Giovanni Spano, transl., L'iltoria di Giuseppi l'ebreu [The story of Joseph the Jewish], London, translation of Il Libro della Genesi (in Italian), verse 20, pages 32–33:

And bring your youngest brother to me, so that he can prove your motives, and [so that] you don't die.

Lu to’ ilpiritu vibu
Currilpondi a pilfizioni
Pal chilti, e altri rasgioni
Lu me cori è obbligaddu.

c. 19ᵗʰ century, Maria Grazia Mureddu-Cossu, “[untitled song]”, in Giovanni Spano, editor, Canti popolari in dialetto sassarese, volume 1 (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Cagliari, published 1873, song 18, page 97:

Your lively spirit corresponds to perfection: for these—and other—reasons, my heart is obliged.


cirèsthrinu

sdc-adj

cirèsthrinu (feminine singular cirèsthrina, masculine and feminine plural cirèsthrini)

cirèsthrina (feminine singular)
cirèsthrini (feminine masculine plural)

Probably from Old Italian cilestrino, derived from cilestro (which likely influenced the change in stress position).

Un’arietta frèsca,
lu zéru cirèsthrinu
cun calchi nui andèndi

1957, Salvator Ruju, “Sóru sóru a Santu Prédu [All alone in Saint Peter]”, in Sassari véccia e nóba [Old and new Sassari]; republished as Caterina Ruju, editor, Sassari véccia e nóba, Nuoro: Ilisso edizioni, 2001, →ISBN, page 179:

A fresh breeze, the azure sky with a few moving clouds


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


ammentu

Likely borrowed from Logudorese ammentu, deverbal of ammentare (“to remember”).

[…] Insieme
delle memorie spaventose il cumulo
si scioglierebbe, come neve al sole.

1989 [1934], Giovanni Maria Cherchi, Paràuri [Words], adaptation of Parole by Umberto Saba; collected in La poesia di l'althri, Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1989, page 11:

At the same time, the dreadful heap of memories would melt like snow when the sun is there.


ammentu

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

nonlemma

first-person singular present indicative of ammintà

first-person singular present indicative of ammintassi


ammenti

second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of ammintà

second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of ammintassi


ammintà

head

ammintà (first-person singular present ammentu, past participle ammintaddu, auxiliary abé)

ammentu (first-person present singular)
ammintaddu (participle past)
abé (auxiliary)
ammintà (infinitive)
abé + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
ammintendi (gerund)
abendi + past participle (gerund multiword-construction)
ammintaddu (participle past)
ammentu (present singular)
ammenti (present second-person singular)
ammenta (present singular third-person)
ammintemmu (first-person plural present)
amminteddi (plural present second-person)
ammèntani (plural present third-person)
ammintaba (imperfect singular)
ammintabu (imperfect singular)
ammintabi (imperfect second-person singular)
ammintaba (imperfect singular third-person)
ammintàbami (first-person imperfect plural)
ammintàbaddi (imperfect plural second-person)
ammintàbani (imperfect plural third-person)
ammintesi (historic past singular)
ammintesi (historic past second-person singular)
ammintesi (historic past singular third-person)
ammintésimi (first-person historic past plural)
ammintésiddi (historic past plural second-person)
ammintésini (historic past plural third-person)
ammintaràggiu (future singular)
ammintaré (future second-person singular)
ammintarà (future singular third-person)
ammintaremu (first-person future plural)
ammintareddi (future plural second-person)
ammintarani (future plural third-person)
present indicative of abé + a ammintà (future)
present indicative of abé + a ammintà (first-person future plural second-person)
present indicative of abé + a ammintà (future second-person third-person)
future indicative of abé + a ammintà (future)
future indicative of abé + a ammintà (first-person future plural second-person)
future indicative of abé + a ammintà (future second-person third-person)
future of abé + past participle (future multiword-construction perfect)
future of abé + past participle (first-person future multiword-construction perfect plural second-person)
future of abé + past participle (future multiword-construction perfect second-person third-person)
ammintarìsthia (present singular)
ammintaria (present singular)
ammintaristhi (present second-person singular)
ammintarì (present second-person singular)
ammintarìsthia (present singular third-person)
ammintaria (present singular third-person)
ammintarìsthiami (first-person plural present)
ammintarìami (first-person plural present)
ammintarìsthiaddi (plural present second-person)
ammintarìaddi (plural present second-person)
ammintarìsthiani (plural present third-person)
ammintarìani (plural present third-person)
ammèntia (present singular)
ammenti (present singular)
ammèntia (present singular third-person)
ammèntiami (first-person plural present)
ammèntiaddi (plural present second-person)
ammèntiani (plural present third-person)
ammintessi (imperfect singular)
ammintessi (imperfect singular third-person)
ammintéssimi (first-person imperfect plural)
ammintéssiddi (imperfect plural second-person)
ammintéssini (imperfect plural third-person)
ammenta (imperative second-person singular)
no ammintà (imperative second-person singular)
ammèntia (imperative singular third-person)
ammintemmu (first-person imperative plural)
amminteddi (imperative plural second-person)
ammèntiani (imperative plural third-person)

Likely a semi-learned borrowing from Logudorese ammentare, from Old Italian ammentare, derived from mente (“mind”).

slbor

Tu no l’ammenti la casa d’isthasera,
éiu no soggu ca restha a ca si n’anda.

1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “La casa di li duganeri [The customs officers' house]”, in La poesia di l'althri [The poetry of others] (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 163:

You don't remember tonight's house, I don't know who's staying and who's leaving.

l’innòmmu méu no sarìsthia séividdu nèmmancu a prigà un canòniggu o mancàrri ad ammintà un parènti o cuniscènti mórthu chi fùssia

2020 March 25, Ignazio Sanna, “Di nommu fozzu Asdrubale [My name is Asdrubale]”, in Ignazio Sanna - Prosa e poesia in sassarese:

my name wouldn't have any use, not even to pray a canon, or maybe remember any dead relative or acquaintance

Eju no lassu però d’ammintatti,
Si fai chissu sei un tradiddori!

c. 19ᵗʰ century, G. Cossu Solinas, “[untitled song]”, in Giovanni Spano, editor, Canti popolari in dialetto sassarese, volume 1 (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Cagliari, published 1873, song 33, page 123:

But I won't shy away from reminding you: if you do this, you're a cheater!


ammintassi

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ammintassi (first-person singular present m'ammentu, past participle ammintaddu, auxiliary assé)

m'ammentu (first-person present singular)
ammintaddu (participle past)
assé (auxiliary)
ammintassi (infinitive)
assessi + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
amminténdisi (gerund)
esséndisi + past participle (gerund multiword-construction)
ammintaddu (participle past)
mi ammentu (first-person indicative present singular)
ti ammenti (indicative present second-person singular)
si ammenta (indicative present singular third-person)
zi ammintemmu (first-person indicative plural present)
vi amminteddi (indicative plural present second-person)
si ammèntani (indicative plural present third-person)
mi ammintaba (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
ti ammintabi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
si ammintaba (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
zi ammintàbami (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
vi ammintàbaddi (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
si ammintàbani (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
mi ammintaràggiu (first-person future indicative singular)
ti ammintaré (future indicative second-person singular)
si ammintarà (future indicative singular third-person)
zi ammintaremu (first-person future indicative plural)
vi ammintareddi (future indicative plural second-person)
si ammintarani (future indicative plural third-person)
future of assessi + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
mi ammintaria (conditional first-person present singular)
mi ammintaristhia (conditional first-person present singular)
ti ammintaristhi (conditional present second-person singular)
si ammintaria (conditional present singular third-person)
zi ammintarìami (conditional first-person plural present)
vi ammintarìaddi (conditional plural present second-person)
si ammintarìani (conditional plural present third-person)
mi ammèntia (conditional present singular)
ti ammenti (conditional present singular)
si ammèntia (conditional present singular third-person)
zi ammèntiami (conditional first-person plural present)
vi ammèntiaddi (conditional plural present second-person)
si ammèntiani (conditional plural present third-person)
mi ammintessi (conditional imperfect singular)
ti ammintessi (conditional imperfect singular)
si ammintessi (conditional imperfect singular third-person)
zi ammintéssimi (conditional first-person imperfect plural)
vi ammintéssiddi (conditional imperfect plural second-person)
si ammintéssini (conditional imperfect plural third-person)
ammèntaddi (imperative second-person singular)
no ammintatti (imperative second-person singular)
si ammèntia (imperative singular third-person)
zi ammintemmu (first-person imperative plural)
ammintéddivi (imperative plural second-person)
si ammèntiani (imperative plural third-person)

ammintà (“to remember”) + -si (“oneself”, enclitic reflexive pronoun)

af

Nelle anguﬅie dell’anima mia mi ſon ricordato del Signore, per rivolgere la mia orazione a te, al tuo tempio ſanto.

1866 [1770s], Antonio Martini, chapter II, in Giovanni Spano, transl., La profezia di Giona [Jonah's prophecy], London, translation of Profezia di Giona (in Italian), verse 8, page 8:

As my soul was in torment, I remembered about the Lord, so that my prayer comes to you, to your sacred temple.

La me cara, non pignì
Lass’iltà l’amaru pientu,
Ch’eju di te già m’ammentu
A dugn’ora di la dì.

c. 19ᵗʰ century, G. Cossu Solinas, “[untitled song]”, in Giovanni Spano, editor, Canti popolari in dialetto sassarese, volume 1 (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Cagliari, published 1873, song 28, page 112:

My dear, don't cry; forget the bitter tears, for I remember about you every hour of the day.

La féstha di Sant’Anna
(in canti sèmu abà a ammintazzira?),
pièna di rattatuglia e iparatóri

1957, Salvator Ruju, “La géisgia di Sant’Anna [The church of St. Anna]”, in Sassari véccia e nóba [Old and new Sassari]; republished as Caterina Ruju, editor, Sassari véccia e nóba, Nuoro: Ilisso edizioni, 2001, →ISBN, page 260:

The festival of St. Anna (how many of us remember it now?), full of riff-raff and fireworks

E s’ammenta di nomi immintigaddi,
un basgiu dazi a facci risurani,
chi più no li vidia che in sonni fei

1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Puisia [Poetry]”, in La poesia di l'althri (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 19:

And it remembers forgotten names; it gives a kiss to smiling faces, which it was no longer seeing, except in bad dreams

E ammentaddi: candu ti l’affiàgni, isthrìgni umbè umbè.

And remember: when you hold her, squeeze really tight.

+obj

to remember [with direct object or di ‘someone/something’; or with chi (+ indicative clause) ‘that ...’]


dubé

head

dubé (first-person singular present debu, past participle dubuddu, first-person singular imperfect dibia)

debu (first-person present singular)
dubuddu (participle past)
dibia (first-person imperfect singular)

Inherited from Classical Latin dēbeō, dēbēre, contraction of *dēhibeō, derived from dē- + habeō (“have”).

inh+

Isciddu però lu silvidori incuntresi un altru silvidori cumpagnu soju, chi li dibia zentu dinà: e affarrenddilu l’affogaba, dizendi: Pagami lu chi mi debi.

1866 [1770s], Antonio Martini, chapter XVIII, 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 28, page 72:

Having gone out, however, the servant met another fellow servant, who owed him a hundred denarii; and, grabbing him, he choked him, saying: "Pay what you owe me".

(transitive) to owe [with a ‘to someone’]

E la gran careﬅia aſſorbirà la grande abbondanza.

1863 [1770s], Antonio Martini, chapter XLI, in Giovanni Spano, transl., L'iltoria di Giuseppi l'ebreu [The story of Joseph the Jewish], London, translation of Il Libro della Genesi (in Italian), verse 31, page 23:

And the great abundance is to be destroyed by the great famine.

Si par amatti patì
Debu sempri e gudì mai,
Saria nizzissiddai
Da chissu amori fuggì

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 66, page 165:

If I have to always suffer, and never feel enjoyment, in order to love you, it would be a necessity to flee from that love

Nò lu cridìa nò, nò lu cridìa
chi dubissi suffrì chisthu tuimentu.

1957, Salvator Ruju, “Marumòri [Bad mood]”, in Agnireddu e Rusina; republished as Caterina Ruju, editor, Sassari véccia e nóba, Nuoro: Ilisso edizioni, 2001, →ISBN, page 110:

I did not believe, no, I did not believe I had to go through this torment.

(modal) to have to, must [with infinitive]

[…] guasi guasi credu
chi podaristhia eu puru
o dubaristhia
nascì torra. […]

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

I almost believe that I, too, could—or should—be born again.


voluntai

Ah, s’abissi voluntai
Di vindicammi di te!

c. 19ᵗʰ century, anonymous author, “[untitled song]”, in Giovanni Spano, editor, Canti popolari in dialetto sassarese, volume 1 (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Cagliari, published 1873, song 8, page 75:

Ah, if only I had the will to get revenge against you!


abé raxoni

Di fammi tantu paddì / Raxoni zeltu no hai

Surely you have no reason to make me suffer so much

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see abé, raxoni.

Alternative spelling of abé rasgioni
(intransitive) to be right

Alternative spelling of abé rasgioni
to be right


volundai

Già chi cussì vuleddi
Fatta sia la voltra volundai

c. 19ᵗʰ century, G. Cossu Solinas, “[untitled song]”, in Giovanni Spano, editor, Canti popolari in dialetto sassarese, volume 2 (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Cagliari, published 1873, song 48, page 140:


assevvi

head

assevvi (first-person singular present vi soggu, past participle isthaddu, first-person singular imperfect v'era, first-person singular future vi saràggiu, first-person singular subjunctive vi sia, first-person singular imperfect subjunctive vi fùssia, auxiliary assé)

vi soggu (first-person present singular)
isthaddu (participle past)
v'era (first-person imperfect singular)
vi saràggiu (first-person future singular)
vi sia (first-person singular subjunctive)
vi fùssia (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
assé (auxiliary)

PIE word
 *ís
assé (“to be”) + -vi (“here; there”, enclitic locative adverb)

af

Principiarono a venire i ſette anni di careﬅia predetti da Giuſeppe, e la fame regnò per tutto il mondo; ma in tutta la terra d’Egitto v’era del pane.

1863 [1770s], Antonio Martini, chapter XLI, in Giovanni Spano, transl., L'iltoria di Giuseppi l'ebreu [The story of Joseph the Jewish], London, translation of Il Libro della Genesi (in Italian), verse 54, pages 27–28:

The seven years of famine that Joseph predicted started coming, and hunger was felt all over the world; but there was bread in all the land of Egypt.

Agnò Giommaria candu torra a casa
No incontra lettu si si vo’ culcà
No vi so caddrei si si vo’ pusà
E la cuzina no sa undi sia.

c. 19ᵗʰ century, anonymous author, “[untitled song]”, in Giovanni Spano, editor, Canti popolari in dialetto sassarese, volume 1 (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Cagliari, published 1873, song 27, page 112:

Agnò Giommaria, when he comes back home, can't find any bed if he wants to rest; there are no chairs if he wants to sit; and he doesn't know where the kitchen is.

Passu in carréra pa tè,
pa fatti la sirinada.
Chi bèdda nótti isthillada!
Canta luzi in zéru v’è!

1956, Salvator Ruju, “Sirinada [Serenade]”, in Agnireddu e Rusina; republished as Caterina Ruju, editor, Sassari véccia e nóba, Nuoro: Ilisso edizioni, 2001, →ISBN, page 63:

I pass through the street for you, to serenade you. What a beautiful starry night! there is so much light in the sky!

Di gesgi e gesgiareddi in bidda meia
vi n’è cantu ni voi!

1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Li santi di la bidda meia [The saints of my town]”, in La poesia di l'althri (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 79:

In my town, there are as many churches and churchlets as you want!

Innàntu a la banca arrumbàdda a un’ara v’è una saffàtta di bischótti, un’ampùlla di vermut di seidinà e quattru tazzi

2020 March 25, Ignazio Sanna, “Di nommu fozzu Asdrubale [My name is Asdrubale]”, in Ignazio Sanna - Prosa e poesia in sassarese:

Upon the table placed on one side, there is a plate of biscuits, a bottle of cheap vermouth, and four cups


isthagioni

sì ch’a bene sperar m’era cagione
di quella fiera a la gaetta pelle
l’ora del tempo e la dolce stagione

a. 1950 [1314], Dante Alighieri, “Divina Cumedia: Cantu primu”, in Salvator Ruju, transl., L'Inferru dantesco in sassarese e logudorese (overall work in Italian, Sassarese, and Logudorese), Soter Editrice, translation of Inferno, published 2015 November, page 9, lines 41–43:

so that it was a reason for good hope for this fine-furred beast, the morning, and the sweet season

Alternative form of isthasgioni (“season”)


fàura

Semi-learned borrowing from Logudorese fàula (“lie”), from Classical Latin fābula (“narrative; fable; poem”). Compare Catalan faula (“fable; falsehood”). Doublet of fora (“fable”).

der

dì fauri

[…] un’oasi prupizia pa’ pudé
cu lu pientu annittavvi da li fàuri
chi vi sò già incighendi.

1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Puisia [Poem]”, in La poesia di l'althri [The poetry of others] (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 19:

A propitious oasis, so I can cleanse you with my tears from the lies that are already blinding you.

tuttu lu chi v’abìa fattu bì in chissa vigìria di Pascha era sóru una gróssa faura

2010 September 29, Ignazio Sanna, “Li sigurànzi di Don Fedele [Don Fedele's guarantees]”, in Ignazio Sanna - Prosa e poesia in sassarese:

everything he had you believe in that Easter Eve was just a big lie


spìcchju

(dialectal) Alternative form of ippìcciu (“mirror”)


furthuna

Semi-learned borrowing from Classical Latin fortūna (“fortune, luck”), from Proto-Italic *fortūnā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰr̥tewnéh₂, derived from the root *bʰer- (“to carry”). Compare Gallurese foltuna.

slbor

Santu Marthinu bastha a fantumallu
ch’eddu t’arregga puru la furthuna
e ti fazi vibì di bona luna.

1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Li santi di la bidda meia [The saints of my town]”, in La poesia di l'althri [The poetry of others] (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 81:

Saint Martin: it's enough to name him, and he even brings you luck, and makes you live with a good moon.


chirina

Likely borrowed from Sardinian (compare Logudorese chirina, cherina, and Nuorese chirina, derived from chirra (“bough, branch”), in reference to the branches used to cover the pigsty.)

(dialectal) pigsty, especially with a roof made from branches


foltuna

Semi-learned borrowing from Classical Latin fortūna (“fortune, luck”), from Proto-Italic *fortūnā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰr̥tewnéh₂, derived from the root *bʰer- (“to carry”). Compare Sassarese furthuna.

Oh, bedda mea, bianca foltuna

1990 September 24, Fabrizio De André (lyrics and music), “Monti di Mola [Mountains of Mola]”, in Le nuvole [Clouds], performed by Fabrizio De André ft. Tazenda, →OCLC:


purchiri

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *porcīle (“pigsty”), derived from Classical Latin porcus (“piglet; pig”).

inh+

(figurative) pigsty (dirty or very untidy place)


ippìcciu

Inherited from Late Latin speclum, from Classical Latin speculum (“mirror, looking glass”), derived from speciō (“I observe, look at”) + -ulum (instrument suffix).
Compare Italian specchio, Nuorese isprecu, Logudorese ispeju, Campidanese sprigu.


ippìcciu

sdc-adj

ippìcciu (feminine singular ippìccia, masculine and feminine plural ippicci)

ippìccia (feminine singular)
ippicci (feminine masculine plural)

Perhaps from Italian spiccio (“quick; abrupt, brusque, brisk”), deverbal from spicciare (“to rush through”).


ippìcciu

Inherited from Classical Latin spīculum (“little sharp point or sting”), diminutive of spīcum, spīca (“head, ear, spike (of grain)”).
Compare Italian spicchio, Logudorese isprigu, Nuorese ispricu.


polcu

(dialectal) Alternative form of porchu (“pig”)


porchu

Inherited from Classical Latin porcus (“piglet; pig”), from Proto-Italic *porkos, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos (“young pig”), derived from the root *perḱ- (“to dig”).


labà

labà (infinitive)
abé + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
labendi (gerund)
abendi + past participle (gerund multiword-construction)
labaddu (participle past)
labu (present singular)
labi (present second-person singular)
laba (present singular third-person)
labemmu (first-person plural present)
labeddi (plural present second-person)
labani (plural present third-person)
lababa (imperfect singular)
lababu (imperfect singular)
lababi (imperfect second-person singular)
lababa (imperfect singular third-person)
labàbami (first-person imperfect plural)
labàbaddi (imperfect plural second-person)
labàbani (imperfect plural third-person)
labesi (historic past singular)
labesi (historic past second-person singular)
labesi (historic past singular third-person)
labésimi (first-person historic past plural)
labésiddi (historic past plural second-person)
labésini (historic past plural third-person)
labaràggiu (future singular)
labaré (future second-person singular)
labarà (future singular third-person)
labaremu (first-person future plural)
labareddi (future plural second-person)
labarani (future plural third-person)
present indicative of abé + a labà (future)
present indicative of abé + a labà (first-person future plural second-person)
present indicative of abé + a labà (future second-person third-person)
future indicative of abé + a labà (future)
future indicative of abé + a labà (first-person future plural second-person)
future indicative of abé + a labà (future second-person third-person)
future of abé + past participle (future multiword-construction perfect)
future of abé + past participle (first-person future multiword-construction perfect plural second-person)
future of abé + past participle (future multiword-construction perfect second-person third-person)
labarìsthia (present singular)
labaria (present singular)
labaristhi (present second-person singular)
labarì (present second-person singular)
labarìsthia (present singular third-person)
labaria (present singular third-person)
labarìsthiami (first-person plural present)
labarìami (first-person plural present)
labarìsthiaddi (plural present second-person)
labarìaddi (plural present second-person)
labarìsthiani (plural present third-person)
labarìani (plural present third-person)
labia (present singular)
labi (present singular)
labia (present singular third-person)
labiami (first-person plural present)
labiaddi (plural present second-person)
labiani (plural present third-person)
labessi (imperfect singular)
labessi (imperfect singular third-person)
labéssimi (first-person imperfect plural)
labéssiddi (imperfect plural second-person)
labéssini (imperfect plural third-person)
laba (imperative second-person singular)
no labà (imperative second-person singular)
labia (imperative singular third-person)
labemmu (first-person imperative plural)
labeddi (imperative plural second-person)
labiani (imperative plural third-person)

From Latin lavāre (“to wash”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewh₃- (“to wash”).