cu'
Appearance
See also: Appendix:Variations of "cu"
Istriot
[edit]Preposition
[edit]cu'
- Apocopic form of cun
- 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 128:
- Cu’ ’l su’ pruoprio bucheîn el me magnasse;
- With his pretty mouth he would eat me;
Sassarese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Preposition
[edit]cu'
References
[edit]- Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes
Sicilian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- cu (Misspelled)
Etymology
[edit]Apocopic form of cui, from Latin quis. Compare Italian chi.
Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]cu'
Usage notes
[edit]The apocopic form cu' is prevalent rather in usage because it is used to create a more fluent sound of the sentence, becoming a reduced vowel and taking a secondary stress, in the same manner as for dui and du'.
Derived terms
[edit]Categories:
- Istriot lemmas
- Istriot prepositions
- Istriot apocopic forms
- Istriot terms with quotations
- Sassarese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Sassarese lemmas
- Sassarese prepositions
- Sassarese apocopic forms
- Sicilian terms inherited from Latin
- Sicilian terms derived from Latin
- Sicilian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Sicilian/ʊ
- Sicilian lemmas
- Sicilian pronouns
- Sicilian interrogative pronouns