mprestare

Neapolitan

Alternative forms

• mprestà, mbrestare, mbrestà (alt. spellings)

Etymology

Akin to Italian imprestare.

Pronunciation

• (Naples) IPA^(key): [mbrəsˈta]

Verb

mprestare

1. to lend

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 277: “prendere” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Rocco, Emmanuele (1882) “mprestare”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano