nosthru

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Etymology

From Latin nostrum, accusative of noster, from Proto-Italic *nosteros, derived from Proto-Indo-European enclitic *nos (from *éǵh₂) + contrastive *-teros.

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nosthru (feminine singular nosthra, plural nosthri)

  1. our, of ours
    • 1863 [1770s], Antonio Martini, chapter I, in Giovanni Spano, transl., Lu càntiggu de li càntigghi di Salamoni [Solomon's canticle of canticles]‎, London, translation of Il cantico de' cantici (in Italian), verse 15, page 6:
      Tu sei veramenti beddu, o me’ iltimaddu, e graziosu. Lu lettu noltru è fiuriddu.
      [Tu sei veramenti beddu, o me' isthimaddu, e graziosu. Lu lettu nosthru è fiuriddu.]
      [Bello veramente se’ tu, o mio Diletto, e pieno di grazia, il talamo nostro è fiorito.]
      You are very beautiful, o lover of mine, and graceful. Our bed is in bloom.
    • 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 30, page 117:
      No v’è più cunsulazioni / Nè la notti, nè la dì, / Ma pignì, sempre pignì, / È la noltra passioni
      [No v'è più cunsurazioni / Né la notti, né la dì, / Ma pignì, sempre pignì / È la nosthra passioni]
      There is no more consolation, neither at day nor at night, but crying, always crying: it's our passion
    • a. 1950 [1314], Dante Alighieri, “Divina Cumedia: Cantu primu”, in Salvator Ruju, transl., L'Inferru dantesco in sassarese e logudorese‎ (overall work in Italian, Sassarese, and Logudorese), Soter Editrice, translation of Inferno, published 2015 November, page 5, lines 1–3:
      A la middai di chistha nosthra vida / m'acciappesi in d'un buschu assai buggiosu, / chì lu caminu bonu era già pessu.
      At the middle of this life of ours, I found myself in a very dark forest, because the good way was already lost.
    • 1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Femmina [Woman]”, in La poesia di l'althri (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 21:
      Li raffi di tant’anni, li durori, / cussì tènini isthrinti / l’animi nosthri […]
      The marks of many years, the pains, keep our souls entwined so
    • 2020 March 25, Ignazio Sanna, “Di nomme fozzu Asdrubale [My name is Asdrubale]”, in Ignazio Sanna - Prosa e poesia in sassarese‎:
      E voi di la greffa, a lu sabeddi chi chisthu grambiòni in faldhètta, mancu arribiddu, s’è posthu ad aganà li femmini nosthri?
      And you, of the gang: did you know this skirted swine, as soon as he arrived, started wooing our women?

Pronoun

nosthru m (feminine singular nosthra, plural nosthri)

  1. ours
    • 2009 May 9, Ignazio Sanna, “Fòra d’un lèpparu chi no vuria murì in bòtti [Fable of a hare who didn't want to die in his shoes]”, in Ignazio Sanna - Prosa e poesia in sassarese‎:
      Digghia vosthè si una famiria cument’è la nósthra dubi’assé disthrutta da la manìa di cazzià di vói òmmini: digghia!
      You tell us if a family like ours must be destroyed by this hunting frenzy of you men. You tell us!

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References

  • Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes
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