sonnare
Neapolitan
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBy surface analysis, suonno (“sleep”, noun) + -are (verb-forming suffix). Possibly corresponds to a Vulgar Latin *somnāre; cf. Sicilian sunnari.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editsonnare
- to dream (of)
References
edit- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 652: “senza sognare” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- Rocco, Emmanuele (1882) “sonnare”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano