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lejere

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Neapolitan

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin legere. Doublet of leggere, which was borrowed from Italian.

Obsolete in Naples proper[1] but lives on in Calabria.[2]

Pronunciation

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  • (Melissa) IPA(key): [ˈlɛjərə]

Verb

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lejere (regional or obsolete)

  1. to read

References

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  • Rocco, Emmanuele (1882) “lejere”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano
  1. ^ Galiani, Ferdinando & Farao, Francesco Mazzarella. 1789. Vocabolario delle parole del dialetto napoletano, che più si discostano dal dialetto toscano. Page 192.
  2. ^ AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 768: “leggere; egli legge” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
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