sescare

Neapolitan

Alternative forms

• siscare
• sescà, siscà (alt. spellings)

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Naples) IPA^(key): [səʃˈka]

Verb

sescare

1. to whistle

   Quanno 'o ciuccio nun vò bevere, hai voglia do siscà.

   When the donkey doesn't want to drink, it wants to whistle.

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 752: “fischiare; fischia” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Rocco, Emmanuele (1882) “sescare”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano