Lamerika

Slavomolisano

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian l'America.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lamɛ̂rikḁ/

Proper noun

Lamèrika f

1. America
   • 2010, Rino John Gliosca, Bonifacio en Amérique:

     Je sta Lamerika na gošta, dva, tri gošta, ma mu mangaša čuda njevog grad.

     He stayed in America a year, two, three years, but he missed his village a lot.

Declension

    declension of Lamerika (series-2a fem)

	singular	plural
nominative	Lamerika	Lamerike
genitive	Lamerike	Lameriki
dative	Lameriku	Lameriki
accusative	Lameriku	Lamerike
locative	Lameriku	Lamerike
instrumental	Lamerikom	Lameriki

References

• Antonietta Marra (2012), “Contact phenomena in the Slavic of Molise: some remarks about nouns and prepositional phrases” in Morphologies in Contact.
• Breu, W., Mader Skender, M. B. & Piccoli, G. 2013. Oral texts in Molise Slavic (Italy): Acquaviva Collecroce. In Adamou, E., Breu, W., Drettas, G. & Scholze, L. (eds.). 2013. EuroSlav2010: Elektronische Datenbank bedrohter slavischer Varietäten in nichtslavophonen Ländern Europas – Base de données électronique de variétés slaves menacées dans des pays européens non slavophones. Konstanz: Universität / Paris: Lacito (Internet Publication).