vuré

Sassarese

Alternative forms

• vulé (archaic except dialectal)

Etymology

From earlier vulé, from Vulgar Latin voleō, volēre, 2^nd-conjugation regularized form of Classical Latin volō, from Proto-Italic *welō, Proto-Indo-European *welh₁-e-ti, derived from the root *welh₁- (“to choose, to want”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vuˈre/

Verb

vuré (first-person singular present vógliu, past participle vuruddu, auxiliary abé)

1. (transitive) to want, to wish for, to desire [with direct object ‘something’ or chi (+ subjunctive clause) ‘for something to happen’]
   • 1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “La casa a mari [The beach house]”, in La poesia di l'althri [The poetry of others] (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 159:

     Pogga genti l’ischampa, ma calchunu
     ribulthureggia l’órdhini e ridesci
     a passà l’àidu, e ca vuria dibenta.

     Few people escape it, but some uproot the order, and manage to cross the threshold, and become what they wanted.

   1. (in the conditional) would like [with direct object ‘something’ or chi (+ subjunctive clause) ‘for something to happen’]
2. (catenative) to want [with infinitive ‘to do something’]
   • 1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Lauda (29 abriri 1945) [Praise (April 29, 1945)]”, in La poesia di l'althri [The poetry of others] (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 195:

     dabói più di mill’anni d’abagneriu
     lu cori nosthru ha vuruddu ipaccà
     l’althru cori ch’ipaccaddu abia lu toiu.

     After more than a thousand years of Gospel, our heart wanted to crack open the other heart that had cracked open yours.

   • 2020 March 25, Ignazio Sanna, “Di nommu fozzu Asdrubale [My name is Asdrubale]”, in Ignazio Sanna - Prosa e poesia in sassarese‎^[1]:

     lu parracu chi no m’abìa vuruddu battisgià e chi si dizi ancór’abà fùssia un imbriaggòni

     the priest who didn't want to baptize me, and who is—to this day—still rumored to have been a drunkard

   1. (catenative, in the conditional) would like [with infinitive ‘to do something’]
      • 1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “La casa a mari [The beach house]”, in La poesia di l'althri [The poetry of others] (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 157:

        Eu vuraria signatti,
        e prima di zidì, chissu caminu
        chi cussì poggu dura
        cantu l’isciuma o pigia de lu mari.

        I’d like to teach you, before I give up, about this path, that lasts so little, as much as the foam or the small waves of the sea.

Derived terms

• vuré bè

Related terms

• vureri
• vuruntai
• vuruntàriu

 

References

• Ugo Solinas (2016) “vurè”, in Vocabolario sassarese-italiano fraseologico ed etimologico, volume 2, Sestu: Domus de Janas, →ISBN, page 1195
• Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) “volere/2”, in Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes