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Neapolitan
Etymology
Inherited from Latin legere. Doublet of leggere, which was borrowed from Italian.
Obsolete in Naples proper[1] but lives on in Calabria.[2]
Pronunciation
Verb
lejere (regional or obsolete)
- to read
References
- Rocco, Emmanuele (1882) “lejere”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano
- ^ Galiani, Ferdinando & Farao, Francesco Mazzarella. 1789. Vocabolario delle parole del dialetto napoletano, che più si discostano dal dialetto toscano. Page 192.
- ^ AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz – map 768: “leggere; egli legge” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it