vulé

Neapolitan

Verb

vulé

1. Alternative spelling of volere (“to want”)

Sassarese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vuˈle/

Verb

vulé (first-person singular present vógliu, past participle vuluddu, auxiliary abé) [with direct object ‘something/someone’ or chi (+ subjunctive clause) ‘for something to happen’]

1. (archaic except dialectal) Alternative form of vuré
   1. (transitive) to want, to wish for, to desire [with direct object ‘something/someone’ or chi (+ subjunctive clause) ‘for something to happen’]
      • c. 19^th century, Sebastiano di Branca, “[untitled song]”, in Giovanni Spano, editor, Canti popolari in dialetto sassarese‎^[1], volume 1 (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Cagliari, published 1873, song 1, page 59:

        S’ edda matessi ha vuluddu
        Ch’ eju vibissi patendi,
        Com’ iltà abà priguntendi
        Di lu me’ poggu saluddu?

        If she herself has wanted me to live in suffering, how come she is now asking about my poor health?

   2. (in the conditional) would like
      • c. 19^th century, Sebastiano di Branca, “[untitled song]”, in Giovanni Spano, editor, Canti popolari in dialetto sassarese‎^[2], volume 1 (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Cagliari, published 1873, song 17, page 93:

        Solu sì vularia
        Chi ti multresi digna di Luzia.

        Yes, I would only like you to show yourself worthy of Lucia.