Generally percieved, and treated by speakers, as it derived from an unattested, and highly unexplained, *gràpiri. In any case from the metathesis of Vulgar Latin *aprō, from Latin aperīre. The irregular lack of /ʐ/ on the initial ⟨r⟩ can be explained by the fact that the consonant is moved by metathesis, coming from a position within the morpheme. No similar phonetic phenomena appear to be attested. This could also explain why some dialects percieve the word as having a /ɡ/~ sound before the ⟨r⟩ and why other dialects (which percieve most of the ⟨gr-⟩ nexus simply as /ɾ/) perfom, after a stressed syllable placed before the term, a phonosyntactic doubling of the initial ⟨r⟩, yielding /dː/.
ràpiri
| infinitive | ràpiri | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | rapennu | ||||||
| past participle | raputu | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | iu | tu | iddu/idda | nuàutri | vuàutri | iddi | |
| present | rapu | rapi | rapi | rapemu | rapiti | ràpinu, ràpunu | |
| imperfect | rapìa | rapivi | rapìa | rapìamu | rapìavu | rapìanu | |
| preterite | rapivi, rapìi | rapisti | rapìu | rapemmu | rapìstivu | raperu | |
| present perfect | Use the present indicative tense of aviri plus the past participle | ||||||
| past perfect | Use the imperfect indicative tense of aviri plus the past participle | ||||||
| conditional present | rapirìa | rapirissi | rapirìa | rapirìamu | rapirìavu | rapirìanu | |
| conditional past | Use the present conditional tense of aviri plus the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | iu | tu | iddu/idda | nuàutri | vuàutri | iddi | |
| present | rapu | rapi | rapi | rapemu | rapiti | ràpinu, ràpunu | |
| imperfect | rapissi | rapissi | rapissi | rapìssimu | rapìssivu | rapìssiru | |
| present perfect | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of aviri plus the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | vossìa | nuàutri | vuàutri | – | |
| — | rapi | rapissi | rapemu | rapiti | — | ||
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