chiagnere

Neapolitan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin plangere.

Pronunciation

• (Naples) IPA^(key): [ˈkçaɲɲərə]
• (Formicola) IPA^(key): [ˈcaɲɲə]
• (Castelmezzano) IPA^(key): [ˈcant͡ʃ]
• (Montefusco) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃand͡ʒə]

Verb

chiagnere

1. to weep, cry

   A chiagnere 'nu muorto so' lacreme perze.

   To cry for the dead is wasted tears.

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 730: “perché lo fai piangere” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Rocco, Emmanuele (1882) “chiagnere”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano