Sassarese

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Etymology

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A semi-learned borrowing — reshaped similarly to Italian autunno — from Spanish otoño, from Classical Latin autumnus, from earlier auctumnus, of uncertain further origin.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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attugnu m (plural attugni)

  1. autumn (season)
    • 1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Santuaini [October]”, in La poesia di l'althri (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 59:
      In chisthu attugnu chi pianu,
      pianu si n’anda
      In this autumn, that slowly, slowly goes away
    • 2009 May 9, Ignazio Sanna, “L’atugnu inde noi [Autumn around our parts]”, in Ignazio Sanna - Prosa e poesia in sassarese[1]:
      Tébiu è ‘nde noi l’atugnu
      da l’aggrumàddi nui,
      da li pàmpini rui.
      Mild around our parts is the autumn, with massed clouds, with red vine leaves.

See also

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Seasons in Sassarese · isthasgioni (layout · text) · category
primmabera, branu (spring) isthaddiari, isthiu (summer) attugnu (autumn) inverru (winter)

References

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  • Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes