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Italian-Ligurian (Genoese) dictionary

svegliare

tr. v.

  1. addesciâ [adeˈʃaː] (var. desciâ)1

svegliarsi

pron. v.

  1. addesciâse [adeˈʃaːse] (var. desciâse)1

    mi sono svegliato all’ospedale

    me son addesciou à l’ospiâ

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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

addesciâ

Indicative

Present

  1. mi addescio
  2. ti t’addesci
  3. lê o/a l’addescia
  4. niatri addescemmo
  5. viatri addesciæ
  6. liatri addescian

Imperfect

  1. mi addesciava
  2. ti t’addesciavi
  3. lê o/a l’addesciava
  4. niatri addesciavimo
  5. viatri addesciavi
  6. liatri addesciavan

Future

  1. mi addesciò
  2. ti t’addesciæ
  3. lê o/a l’addescià
  4. niatri addesciemo
  5. viatri addesciei
  6. liatri addescian

Subjunctive

Present

  1. che mi addesce
  2. che ti t’addesci
  3. che lê o/a l’addesce
  4. che niatri addescemmo
  5. che viatri addesciæ
  6. che liatri addescian

Imperfect

  1. che mi addescesse
  2. che ti t’addescesci
  3. che lê o/a l’addescesse
  4. che niatri addescescimo
  5. che viatri addescesci
  6. che liatri addescessan

Conditional

  1. mi addescieiva/addesciæ
  2. ti t’addesciësci
  3. lê o/a l’addescieiva/addesciæ
  4. niatri addesciëscimo
  5. viatri addesciësci
  6. liatri addescieivan/addesciæn

Imperative

  1. addescia ti!
  2. addescemmo niatri!
  3. addesciæ viatri!

Past participle

  1. m. s. addesciou
  2. m. p. addesciæ
  3. f. s. addesciâ
  4. f. p. addesciæ

Gerund

  1. addesciando