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Sassarese
Etymology
From Late Latin festa, alternative form of fēsta, derived from Classical Latin fēstum (“holiday; banquet”), from Proto-Italic *fēstos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁s-to-s, derived from the root *dʰéh₁s (“deity; sacred place”).
Pronunciation
Noun
festha f (plural festhi)
- party, celebration
1866 [1770s], Antonio Martini, chapter XXVI, in Giovanni Spano, transl., L'ebagneliu sigundu S. Matteju [The Gospel according to St. Matthew], London, translation of Il santo Vangelo di Gesù Cristo secondo Matteo (in Italian), verse 5, page 107:Ma diziani: No in dì, di felta, palchì no suzzedia ribuluzioni in lu pobbulu.- [Ma dizìani: No in dì, di festha, parchì no suzzédia ribuluzioni in lu póburu.]
- But they were saying: "Not in a day of celebration, so that there's no tumult among the people.
c. 19th century, anonymous author, “”, in Giovanni Spano, editor, Canti popolari in dialetto sassarese, volume 1 (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Cagliari, published 1873, song 4, page 68:Pal me non v’è più felta,
La me’ felta è lu dolu e sulpirà- [Pa' me non v'è più festha,
La me' festha è lu doru e suippirà] - There's no more celebration for me; my celebration is the sorrow and sighing
References
- ^ Mauro Maxia (2012) Fonetica storica del gallurese e delle altre varietà sardocorse (in Sassarese), Editrice Taphros, →ISBN