dezi

See also: Dezi and dezi-

Sassarese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Classical Latin decem, from Proto-Italic *dekem, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥. Cognate with Italian dieci, Gallurese deci, Sardinian deghe, and Ligurian dêxe.

Pronunciation

  • (Turritan, Sedini) IPA(key): /ˈded͡zi/[1]

Numeral

dezi

  1. (cardinal number) ten (10)
    • mid-18th—early-19th century (exact period unknown), Sebastiano Branca, Un balbaru Neroni [A barbaric Nero], stanza 2; republished in Salvatore Tola, “La Gallura, Sassari e Alghero” (chapter 3), in La letteratura in lingua sarda: testi, autori, vicende, Cagliari: CUEC, October 2006, →ISBN, page 129:
      Trenta tre pugnaladdi / inumanu li desi già rindiddu! / Sò, si l’hai cuntaddi, / dezi multali li ch’ha rizzibiddu / cun tanta crudiltai / usaddu n’ hani la balbariddai!
      Inhuman, he stabbed him thirty-three times, when he had already surrendered! If you counted them, ten are the fatal ones he received; they, along with such cruelty, proved his barbarity!

References

  1. ^ Mauro Maxia (2012), Fonetica storica del gallurese e delle altre varietà sardocorse (in Sassarese), Editrice Taphros, →ISBN
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