vésser
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Lombard[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- vess (Milanese Classical Orthography)
- eser, éser (Brescian popular orthographies)
- ess, ès (Bergamasque popular orthographies)
- ésser, éssar (East-southern varieties)
- vèss, vès (Western orthographies)
Etymology[edit]
From Latin essēre, from Latin esse (“to be”), thus from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésmi (“I am, I exist”). Cognate to Italian essere, Piedmontese esse, Catalan ser, Friulian jessi and Venetian èssar.
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /(v)es/, [(v)ɛs], [(v)es] (Western and Bergamasque)
- IPA(key): /ˈ(v)eser/, [ˈ(v)ɛsɛr], [ˈ(v)esɛr], [ˈ(v)esär] (Eastern)
- IPA(key): /ˈ(v)ese/, [ˈ(v)ɛsɛ], [ˈ(v)ɛsi], [ˈ(v)ɛse] (Novarese and Northern)
Verb[edit]
vésser (first-person singular present son, first-person singular past seri or sevi, first-person singular futur sarò, first-person singular present subjunctive sia or sii, first-person singular past subjunctive fuss or fudess, first-person singular conditional saress or saria, gerundive essendo, past participle stad)
- to be