sonnare

Neapolitan

Alternative forms

sunnare, sonnà, sunnà (alt. spellings)

Etymology

By surface analysis, suonno (“sleep”, noun) +‎ -are (verb-forming suffix). Possibly corresponds to a Vulgar Latin *somnāre; cf. Sicilian sunnari.

Pronunciation

(Naples) IPA^(key): [sunˈna]

Verb

sonnare

to dream (of)

References

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

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