agghiummaràrisi

Sicilian

Noun

agghiummaràrisi (intransitive)

  1. reflexive of agghiummarari
  2. to curl up (on oneself), huddle
    • c. 1786, Giovanni Meli, chapter I, in Don Chisciotti e Sanciu Panza, introduction:
      Sanciu si agghiummaría ’mmenzu la nivi; […]
      Sancho was huddling in the snow; […]
  3. to fight
  4. to trip (fall)
    • c. 1786, Giovanni Meli, chapter VII, in Don Chisciotti e Sanciu Panza, stanza 69:
      E squagghiu, e scunchiu e lu pedi s’agghiommara […].
      And I melt, and faint, and my foot trips.

References
  • Traina, Antonino (1868) “agghiummarari e agghiommarari”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 157
  • Pasqualino (c. 1790) “agghiummariarisi”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 1, page 58
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