primmabera

Sassarese

Etymology
PIE word
*wósr̥

Likely borrowed from Italian primavera, from Late Latin prīma vēra, alternative form of prīmum vēr (“early spring”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /prim.maˈbe.ra/

Noun

primmabera f (plural primmaberi)

  1. springtime, spring
    Synonym: (archaic) branu
    • 1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “A l’ipicciadda di lu sori [At sunrise]”, in La poesia di l'althri [The poetry of others] (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 177:
      Cabidannu è cussì vibu in chistha terra
      di pianu e li pàschuri verdhi
      cumenti in primabéra sò li baddi
      di l’isuri suriani.
      September is so lively in this level land, and the pastures green like the valleys of the sunny islands are during springtime.

See also
Seasons in Sassarese · isthasgioni (layout · text) · category
primmabera, branu (“spring”) isthaddiari, isthiu (“summer”) attugnu (“autumn”) inverru (“winter”)

References
  • Ugo Solinas (2016) “primabèra”, in Vocabolario sassarese-italiano fraseologico ed etimologico, volume 2, Sestu: Domus de Janas, →ISBN, page 963
  • Giosue Muzzo (1981) “primabéra”, in Vocabolario del dialetto sassarese, Chiarella Editore, →ISBN; republished, Sassari: Carlo Delfino editore, 2018, page 149
  • Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes
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