sonnare
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Neapolitan[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
By surface analysis, suonno (“sleep”, noun) + -are (verb-forming suffix). Possibly corresponds to a Vulgar Latin *somnāre; cf. Sicilian sunnari.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
sonnare
- to dream (of)
References[edit]
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 652: “senza sognare” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- Rocco, Emmanuele (1882) “sonnare”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano