sghæuâ

Ligurian

Verb

sghæuâ

1. Alternative spelling of sgheuâ, archaic form of xoâ.
   • 1895, Niccolò Bacigalupo, chapter I (chapter 1), in Eneide: ricordi di un reduce troiano in dialetto genovese‎^[1], stanza 1, lines 5–8; republished Genoa: Valenti Editore, 1973:

     Quando l’é stæto ognûn quieto e tranquillo
     Che se pûeiva sentî ûnn-a mosca sghæuâ,
     Enea, dall’äto dö so caregon
     Ö commensa, c’ûn pö de commozion

     When everyone is silent and quiet, so much that you could hear a fly fly, Aeneas — from his high chair — starts [narrating], a bit moved