nieddu

Inherited from Latin nigellus.

nieddu (feminine singular niedda, masculine and feminine plural nieddi)

1. black

nieddu m (plural nieddi)

1. (uncountable) black (color)

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1574: “nero; nera; neri” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

• nigheddu (Nuorese)

Inherited from Latin nigellus.

nieddu (feminine singular niedda, masculine plural nieddos, feminine plural nieddas) (LSC, Campidanese, Logudorese)

1. black

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1574: “nero; nera; neri” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964) “niǥéḍḍu”, in Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg

Inherited from Latin nigellus.

• IPA^(key): /niˈeɖɖu/

nieddu (feminine singular niedda, masculine and feminine plural nieddi)

1. black
   • 1866, chapter V, in Giovanni Spano, transl., L'ebagneliu sigundu S. Matteju [The Gospel according to St. Matthew]‎^[1] (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), London, translation of Evangelium secundum Matthaeum, verse 36, page 16:

     Nè pa lu to’ cabbu hai a giurà, palchì no poi fà un pelu biancu, o nieddu.

     And you will not swear by your head, for you cannot make even one hair white or black.

   • c. 19^th century, anonymous author, “[untitled song]”, in Giovanni Spano, editor, Canti popolari in dialetto sassarese [Popular songs in Sassarese dialect]‎^[2], volume 2 (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Cagliari, published 1873, song 64, page 158:

     Sia lu me’ colpu viltiddu
     D’un sumbreri pampanuddu
     Mezzu biancu e mezzu nieddu
     Mannu cant’un caniltreddu

     May my body be clothed with a fancy hat, half white and half black, as big as a basket

   • 1957, Salvator Ruju, “Don Paschuari nósthru si lamènta [Our Don Pasquale complains]”, in Sassari véccia e nóba [Old and new Sassari]; republished as Caterina Ruju, editor, Sassari véccia e nóba, Nuoro: Ilisso edizioni, 2001, →ISBN, page 194:

     La mòscha virinòsa,
     la ruia, la bïanca e la nïédda,
     è trabanèndi finza lu zaibéddu,
     di tant’iscillaradi.

     The venomous fly, the red [one], the white [one], and the black [one], is penetrating even in the brain of many wicked ones.

   • 1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Sobr’a lu taurinu [Upon the table]”, in La poesia di l'althri [The poetry of others], Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 33:

     […] È nieddu che la notti
     lu me’ pientu ma cuaddu si rimani
     a l’althri e a me matessi.

     My crying is as black as night, but it remains hidden to others and myself.

nieddu m (plural nieddi)

1. (uncountable) black (color)

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1574: “nero; nera; neri” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) “nero”, in Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes