umbè
Sassarese
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editAdverb
editumbè
- much, very much, a lot
- 1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Lu vedru a pezzi [The shattered glass]”, in La poesia di l'althri [The poetry of others] (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 39:
- […] la casa
véccia chi trimurendi è pa’ lu ventu
e chi m’è cara acchì v’aggiu ipiraddu,
calche volta gududdu, umbè sufferthu.- The old house, which trembles under the wind, and is dear to me, since inside of it I have hoped, sometimes found enjoyment, suffered a lot.
Determiner
editumbè (invariable)
- a lot, much, lots, many
- 1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Lu vedru a pezzi [The shattered glass]”, in La poesia di l'althri [The poetry of others] (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 39:
- Erani amigghi cari, ma, girosi
l’unu di l’althru, a fassi marabiglia,
s’invintàbani umbè d’innamuraddi
gariggendi a ca più fèmmini v’abìa.- They were close friends, but—being jealous of each other—in order to surprise each other, they would make up lots of lovers, to see who could have the most women.
- great, much, very
References
edit- Ugo Solinas (2016) “umbè”, in Vocabolario sassarese-italiano fraseologico ed etimologico, volume 2, Sestu: Domus de Janas, →ISBN, page 1164
- Giosue Muzzo (1981) “umbè”, in Vocabolario del dialetto sassarese, Chiarella Editore, →ISBN; republished, Sassari: Carlo Delfino editore, 2018, page 182
- Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes