lejere

Neapolitan

Alternative forms

leiere (alt. spelling)

Etymology

Inherited from Latin legere. Doublet of leggere, which was borrowed from Italian.

Obsolete in Naples proper^[1] but lives on in Calabria.^[2]

Pronunciation

(Melissa) IPA^(key): [ˈlɛjərə]

Verb

lejere (regional or obsolete)

to read

References

Rocco, Emmanuele (1882) “lejere”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano

^ Galiani, Ferdinando & Farao, Francesco Mazzarella. 1789. Vocabolario delle parole del dialetto napoletano, che più si discostano dal dialetto toscano. Page 192.
^ AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 768: “leggere; egli legge” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

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