sescare

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Neapolitan[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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Pronunciation[edit]

  • (Naples) IPA(key): [səʃˈka]

Verb[edit]

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[edit]

  • 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
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