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Sassarese
Etymology
ammintà (“to remember”) + -si (“oneself”, enclitic reflexive pronoun)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /am.minˈtas.si/
- Hyphenation: am‧min‧tàs‧si
Verb
ammintassi (first-person singular present m'ammentu, past participle ammintaddu, auxiliary assé)
- reflexive of ammintà
- to remember
- Synonym: ammintà
- Antonyms: immintigà, ischurdhà
1866 [1770s], Antonio Martini, chapter II, in Giovanni Spano, transl., La profezia di Giona, London, translation of Profezia di Giona (in Italian), verse 8, page 8:Mentri l’ anima meja era in angultj, mi soggu ammintaddu di lu Signori: palchì venghia a te la me’ orazioni, a lu to’ santu tempiu.- [Mentri l’ànima méia era in angusthi, mi soggu ammintaddu di lu Signori: parchì vènghia a te la me’ orazioni, a lu to’ santu tèmpiu.]
- [Nelle angustie dell’anima mia mi son ricordato del Signore, per rivolgere la mia orazione a te, al tuo tempio santo.]
- As my soul was in torment, I remembered about the Lord, so that my prayer comes to you, to your sacred temple.
c. 19th century, G. Cossu Solinas, “”, in Giovanni Spano, editor, Canti popolari in dialetto sassarese, volume 1 (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Cagliari, published 1873, song 28, page 112:La me cara, non pignì
Lass’iltà l’amaru pientu,
Ch’eju di te già m’ammentu
A dugn’ora di la dì.- [La me' cara, non pignì
Lass’isthà l’amaru pientu,
Ch’éiu di te già m’ammentu
A dugn’ora di la dì.] - My dear, don't cry; forget the bitter tears, for I remember about you every hour of the day.
1957, Salvator Ruju, “La géisgia di Sant’Anna”, in Sassari véccia e nóba; republished as Caterina Ruju, editor, Sassari véccia e nóba, Nuoro: Ilisso edizioni, 2001, →ISBN, page 260:La féstha di Sant’Anna
(in canti sèmu abà a ammintazzira?),
pièna di rattatuglia e iparatóri- The festival of St. Anna (how many of us remember it now?), full of riff-raff and fireworks
- (literally, “The festival of St. Anna (in how many are we here to remember it?), full of riff-raff and fireworks”)
1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Puisia”, in La poesia di l'althri (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 19:E s’ammenta di nomi immintigaddi,
un basgiu dazi a facci risurani,
chi più no li vidia che in sonni fei- And it remembers forgotten names; it gives a kiss to smiling faces, which it was no longer seeing, except in bad dreams
2020 March 25, Ignazio Sanna, “Di nommu fozzu Asdrubale”, in Ignazio Sanna - Prosa e poesia in sassarese:E ammentaddi: candu ti l’affiàgni, isthrìgni umbè umbè.- And remember: when you hold her, squeeze really tight.
Conjugation
Conjugation of ammintassi
References
- Ugo Solinas (2016) Vocabolario sassarese-italiano fraseologico ed etimologico, volume 1, Sestu: Domus de Janas, →ISBN, page 101
- Giosue Muzzo (1981) Vocabolario del dialetto sassarese, Chiarella Editore, →ISBN; republished, Sassari: Carlo Delfino editore, 2018, page 34