verdhi

From Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Classical Latin viridis, derived from vireō. Cognate with Sardinian birde and Gallurese veldi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛɮdi/

verdhi (invariable)

1. green (having a green colour)
   • 1956, Salvator Ruju, “Ma nò la vogliu mari”, in Agnireddu e Rusina [Old and new Sassari]; republished as Caterina Ruju, editor, Sassari véccia e nóba, Nuoro: Ilisso edizioni, 2001, →ISBN, page 77:

     Vèrdhi e rànziga che féri,
     à lu córi creba creba;
     si cridia parch'era ricca
     di pudemmi bè imbischà

     Green and bitter as bile, her heart is dying of anger; she thought, because she was rich, that she could well capture me

   • 1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Un cuntaddu [A tale]”, in La poesia di l'althri [The poetry of others] (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 47:

     Di la ziddài natiba i lu so’ cori
     diricaddu una mamma s’ammintaba
     ch’era verdhi e fiuridda che giardhinu.

     About the native town, in her delicate heart, a mother remembered it was as green and flowery as a garden.

verdhi m (invariable)

1. green (colour)
2. greenery
   • 1956, Salvator Ruju, “L’ipìgura [Lavender]”, in Agnireddu e Rusina; republished as Caterina Ruju, editor, Sassari véccia e nóba, Nuoro: Ilisso edizioni, 2001, →ISBN, page 118:

     La tèrra, in dugna càbura, un incantu
     di vèrdhi e fiòri.
     Rusì, e tu cantabi.

     All around, the ground was a marvel of greenery and flowers, Rosina, and you were singing.

• Ugo Solinas (2016) “vèrdhi”, in Vocabolario sassarese-italiano fraseologico ed etimologico, volume 2, Sestu: Domus de Janas, →ISBN, page 1181
• Giosue Muzzo (1981) “vèrdhi”, in Vocabolario del dialetto sassarese, Chiarella Editore, →ISBN; republished, Sassari: Carlo Delfino editore, 2018, page 185
• Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes