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Nè pa lu to’ cabbu hai a giurà, palchì no poi fà un pelu biancu, o nieddu.
[Né pa’ lu to’ cabbu hai a giurà, parchì no poi fà un peru biancu, o nieddu.]
And you will not swear by your head, for you cannot make even one hair white or black.
c.19th century, anonymous author, “”, in Giovanni Spano, editor, Canti popolari in dialetto sassarese [Popular songs in Sassarese dialect], 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
[Sia lu me’ cóipu visthiddu D’un sumbreri pampanuddu Mezzu biancu e mezzu nieddu Mannu cant’un canisthreddu]
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 , the white , and the black , is penetrating even in the brain of many wicked ones.
1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Femmina [Woman]”, in La poesia di l'althri (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 21:
