abali

From an adverbial use of Classical Latin aequālis (“equal; comparable; coeval”). Compare Old Italian avale, aguale (“now”).

• IPA^(key): /aˈβali/

abali

1. now
   • 18^th century, Gavino Pes, Lu tempu [Time], stanza 7; republished in “La Gallura, Sassari e Alghero” (chapter 3), in Salvatore Tola, La letteratura in lingua sarda: testi, autori, vicende, Cagliari: CUEC, October 2006, →ISBN, page 124:

     Tempu dispriziatu, torra abali, / ch’agghju di ca se’ tu lu cunniscimentu

     O despised Time, come back now that I'm able to know you

2. just now

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

• (Sedini) IPA^(key): /aˈβali/

abali

1. (obsolete except dialectal) alternative form of abà
   • c. 19^th century, anonymous author, “[untitled song]”, in Giovanni Spano, editor, Canti popolari in dialetto sassarese‎^[1], volume 2 (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Cagliari, published 1873, song 61, page 153:

     Abali no zelcu più
     Nè felti nè altri ilpassi

     [Abari no zerchu più
     Nè festhi nè althri ippassi]

     Now I no longer seek parties, or other leisures

• Mauro Maxia (2014), “abáli”, in Piccolo dizionario castellanese e sedinese‎^[2] (in Sassarese), page 8