pecché
See also: pecche
Neapolitan edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
By surface analysis, pe (“for”) + ché (“what”), with its various Romance cognates (Italian perché, French pourquoi, Spanish porqué) suggestive of a Vulgar Latin *[prō quid] ~ *[per quid].
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
pecché
Conjunction edit
pecché
References edit
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 730: “perché lo fai piangere?” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- Giacco, Giuseppe (2003) “pecché”, in Schedario Napoletano
Old French edit
Verb edit
pecché