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Italian-Ligurian (Genoese) dictionary

allevare

tr. v.

  1. allevâ [aleˈvaː] (var. levâ)1

    tiâ sciù [ˈtjaː ʃy]

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1. Prothesis of [a]- in verbs and nouns

In Genoese, the prothesis – that is, the addition in initial position – of a vowel [a]- is particularly frequent in many verbal forms. These verbs may therefore occur in double form, for example: arregordâ [areɡurˈdaː] ~ regordâ [reɡurˈdaː] “to remember”; addeuviâ [adøːˈvjaː] ~ deuviâ [døːˈvjaː] “to use”; allevâ [aleˈvaː] ~ levâ [leˈvaː] “to remove, take away”; ammiâ [aˈmjaː] ~ miâ [ˈmjaː] “to look”; arrecheugge [areˈkødʒˑe] ~ recheugge [reˈkødʒˑe] “to gather, collect”. Although this phenomenon may originally have had an intensifying function, in practice both forms—with or without the initial vowel—are equivalent and entail no difference in meaning. The phenomenon also affects some deverbal nouns, such as arregòrdo [areˈɡɔːrdu] ~ regòrdo [reˈɡɔːrdu] “memory”, allevamacce [ale(ː)vaˈmatʃˑe] ~ levamacce [ale(ː)vaˈmatʃˑe] “stain remover”, or arrecuggeita [arekyˈdʒejta] ~ recuggeita [rekyˈdʒejta] “collection”. In these cases as well, the two forms normally do not imply any difference in meaning. In DEIZE, forms with or without [a]- prothesis are lemmatized under the variant considered most frequent in general usage.

Conjugations

allevâ

Indicative

Present

  1. mi allevo
  2. ti t’allevi
  3. lê o/a l’alleva
  4. niatri allevemmo
  5. viatri allevæ
  6. liatri allevan

Imperfect

  1. mi allevava
  2. ti t’allevavi
  3. lê o/a l’allevava
  4. niatri allevavimo
  5. viatri allevavi
  6. liatri allevavan

Future

  1. mi alleviò
  2. ti t’alleviæ
  3. lê o/a l’allevià
  4. niatri alleviemo
  5. viatri alleviei
  6. liatri allevian

Subjunctive

Present

  1. che mi alleve
  2. che ti t’allevi
  3. che lê o/a l’alleve
  4. che niatri allevemmo
  5. che viatri allevæ
  6. che liatri allevan

Imperfect

  1. che mi allevesse
  2. che ti t’allevesci
  3. che lê o/a l’allevesse
  4. che niatri allevescimo
  5. che viatri allevesci
  6. che liatri allevessan

Conditional

  1. mi allevieiva/alleviæ
  2. ti t’alleviësci
  3. lê o/a l’allevieiva/alleviæ
  4. niatri alleviëscimo
  5. viatri alleviësci
  6. liatri allevieivan/alleviæn

Imperative

  1. alleva ti!
  2. allevemmo niatri!
  3. allevæ viatri!

Past participle

  1. m. s. allevou
  2. m. p. allevæ
  3. f. s. allevâ
  4. f. p. allevæ

Gerund

  1. allevando