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25. Latin Bis and Bi. —This prefix in some words appar¬ 
ently developed through the stages bes-, her-, bar-, ba-, and s- 
(the last by confusion with ex-, dis-, etc. 1 ) and appears in Ital¬ 
ian as follows 2 : bisognare, from bi-sonium; biciancola, “specie 
d’altalena,” from ( ?) bis-ancola 3 ; bilancia; bicciacuto, “sorta 
di strumento offensivo,” from bis-acutu-; bernoccolo, bernoc- 
chio, birignoocolo; sbillacco, for bislacco 4 , “stravagante senza 
garho, ne grazia, ne ingegno;” bistrattare, “maltrattare;” 
biroldo, 5 “salsicciotto;” barocchio, “treccie ravvolte dietro al 
capo; 5 ” barlume, “lume debole e incerto che non lascia dis- 
tinguer gli oggetti” (cf. Spanish vislumbre) ; and similarly to 
barlume, also barluzzo and bruzzico, in the expressions a bar- 
luzzo, a bruzzico, “la mattina avanti giorno;” a bardosso and 
a bisdosso, “senza sella;” stentare, stento, for bistentare * 
balordo; 6 bislungo; bistondo; sberluciare, at Siena, '“alluc- 
ciare,” “guardar fisso qua e la avidamente,” and sbiluciare, 
same meaning. 7 
26. Vowel Assimilation. —Sanato, for senato; salvag- 
gio, 1 but now usually selvaggio, by influence of selva; piata, 
piatanza, spiatato, for pieta, etc.; pataflio, for (e)pitaffio; 
maraviglia; amatita, from haematite-; marangone, from 
(in the expression “far berlicche e berlocche,” “barattar le parole,, 
non le mantenere;” cf. French breloque); in the case of an I, gril- 
landa and grelanda, for ghirlanda; in the case of an A, sbernare, for 
sbranarej in the case of an 0, scropire (peasant), for scoprire (but 
this is a'mere transference of the R from the second to the first sylla¬ 
ble). The forms areticare and aretaggio might belong to the group 
mentioned in §27 (a). 
§25. Note 1. See §17. 
2. The development of form and meaning is not certain; see M-L., 
Gram. d. L. R., IT, §540, and Darmesteter, Mots Composes, 2nd edition, 
p. 122 seq. 
3. According to Calx, Studi, No. 206; why not biciancola, from 
cianca, zanca? 
4. For the etymology, see Korting, No. 1413, Caix, Studi, Nos. 207, 
370. 
5. From (?) birotulu-; cf. Caix, Studi, Nos. 204, 89, and Parodi, Rom. 
XVII, pp. 54-55. 
6. From (?) bis-luridu- or (?) bi- rotulu-; cf. French balourd, Old 
French beslort. Sec C. Pascal, in Studi di Filol. Rom., VII 89. 
7. Sbalurce in Romagna, sbarliisa in Lombardia; see Caix, Studi,. 
No. 151. Cf. French bevue and Italian svista. 
§26. Note 1. Perhaps the L was of influence; cf. Schwan-Behrens, 
Gram, des Altfranzosischen, 7th ed., §84 A. 
