agghiummaràrisi

Sicilian

Noun

agghiummaràrisi (intransitive)

1. reflexive of agghiummarari
2. to curl up (on oneself), huddle
   • c. 1786, Giovanni Meli, chapter I, in Don Chisciotti e Sanciu Panza, introduction:

     Sanciu si agghiummaría ’mmenzu la nivi; […]

     Sancho was huddling in the snow; […]

3. to fight
4. to trip (fall)
   • c. 1786, Giovanni Meli, chapter VII, in Don Chisciotti e Sanciu Panza, stanza 69:

     E squagghiu, e scunchiu e lu pedi s’agghiommara […].

     And I melt, and faint, and my foot trips.

References

• Traina, Antonino (1868) “agghiummarari e agghiommarari”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 157
• Pasqualino (c. 1790) “agghiummariarisi”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 1, page 58