agghiummaràrisi

Sicilian edit

agghiummaràrisi (intransitive)

reflexive of agghiummarari
to curl up (on oneself), huddle
- c. 1786, Giovanni Meli, chapter I, in Don Chisciotti e Sanciu Panza, introduction:
  Sanciu si agghiummaría ’mmenzu la nivi; […]
  Sancho was huddling in the snow; […]
to fight
to trip (fall)
- c. 1786, Giovanni Meli, chapter VII, in Don Chisciotti e Sanciu Panza, stanza 69:
  E squagghiu, e scunchiu e lu pedi s’agghiommara […].
  And I melt, and faint, and my foot trips.

Traina, Antonino (1868) “agghiummarari e agghiommarari”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 157
Pasqualino (c. 1790) “agghiummariarisi”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 1, page 58