agghiummaràrisi
Sicilian
Noun
agghiummaràrisi (intransitive)
- reflexive of agghiummarari
- to curl up (on oneself), huddle
- c. 1786, Giovanni Meli, chapter I, in Don Chisciotti e Sanciu Panza, introduction:
- Sanciu si agghiummaría ’mmenzu la nivi; […]
- Sancho was huddling in the snow; […]
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- to fight
- to trip (fall)
- c. 1786, Giovanni Meli, chapter VII, in Don Chisciotti e Sanciu Panza, stanza 69:
- E squagghiu, e scunchiu e lu pedi s’agghiommara […].
- And I melt, and faint, and my foot trips.
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References
- Traina, Antonino (1868), “agghiummarari e agghiommarari”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 157
- Pasqualino (c. 1790), “agghiummariarisi”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 1, page 58