sonnare

Neapolitan

Alternative forms

• sunnare, sonnà, sunnà (alt. spellings)

Etymology

By surface analysis, suonno (“sleep”, noun) +‎ -are (verb-forming suffix). Possibly corresponds to a Vulgar Latin *somnāre; cf. Sicilian sunnari.

Pronunciation

• (Naples) IPA^(key): [sunˈna]

Verb

sonnare

1. to dream (of)

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 652: “senza sognare” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Rocco, Emmanuele (1882) “sonnare”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano