icussu

Sardinian

Adjective

icussu (feminine icussa, masculine plural (Logudorese) icussos or (Campidanese) icussus, feminine plural icussas)

1. Obsolete form of cussu (“this, these (referring to an object close to the addressee)”).
   • 1212, anonymous author, untitled document; republished as “Carta sarda del 1212 [1212 Sardinian document]”, in Ernesto Monaci, editor, Crestomazia italiana dei primi secoli, con prospetto delle inflessioni grammaticali e glossario, volume 1, Città di Castello: S. Lapi, 1889, page 28, lines 15–17:

     far ci siatsi libera et assolta, et icussa domu de Sanctu Jorgi de Sebollu et totu sus hominis suus de non dari aligandu perunu dadu (Campidanese)

     but let it be freed and absolved, both this house of Saint George of Sebollu, and all its men, from ever giving anyone payment

References

• Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964) “kússu²”, in Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg