dezi

See also: Dezi and dezi-

Sassarese

Alternative forms

• degi (Castelsardo)

Etymology

Inherited from Classical Latin decem, from Proto-Italic *dekem, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥. Cognate with Italian dieci, Gallurese deci, Sardinian deghe, and Ligurian dêxe.

Pronunciation

• (Turritan, Sedini) IPA^(key): /ˈded͡zi/

Numeral

dezi

1. (cardinal number) ten (10)
   • mid-18^th—early-19^th century (exact period unknown), Sebastiano Branca, Un balbaru Neroni [A barbaric Nero], stanza 2; republished in Salvatore Tola, “La Gallura, Sassari e Alghero” (chapter 3), in La letteratura in lingua sarda: testi, autori, vicende, Cagliari: CUEC, October 2006, →ISBN, page 129:

     Trenta tre pugnaladdi / inumanu li desi già rindiddu! / Sò, si l’hai cuntaddi, / dezi multali li ch’ha rizzibiddu / cun tanta crudiltai / usaddu n’ hani la balbariddai!

     Inhuman, he stabbed him thirty-three times, when he had already surrendered! If you counted them, ten are the fatal ones he received; they, along with such cruelty, proved his barbarity!