jelare

Neapolitan

Alternative forms

• ghielare
• jelà, ielà, ghielà (alt. spellings)

Etymology

Inherited from Latin gelāre.

Pronunciation

• (Naples) IPA^(key): [jəˈla]
• (Matera) IPA^(key): [ʃəˈlæ]

Verb

jelare

1. to freeze

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 382: “gelare; gela” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Rocco, Emmanuele (1882) “jelare, ghielare”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano