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ràpiri

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Sicilian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Generally percieved, and treated by speakers, as it derived from an unattested, and highly unexplained, *gràpiri. In any case from the metathesis of Vulgar Latin *aprō, from Latin aperīre. The irregular lack of /ʐ/ on the initial ⟨r⟩ can be explained by the fact that the consonant is moved by metathesis, coming from a position within the morpheme. No similar phonetic phenomena appear to be attested. This could also explain why some dialects percieve the word as having a /ɡ/~[ɣ] sound before the ⟨r⟩ and why other dialects (which percieve most of the ⟨gr-⟩ nexus simply as /ɾ/) perfom, after a stressed syllable placed before the term, a phonosyntactic doubling of the initial ⟨r⟩, yielding /dː/.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɾa.pi.ɾi/, [ˈɾa.pɪ.ɾɪ], [ˈɡɾa-]
  • IPA(key): [ˈdːa.pɪ.ɾɪ] (dialectal, geminated after stressed syllable)

Verb

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ràpiri

  1. to open

Conjugation

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Antonyms

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Derived terms

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See also

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