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meragone ; 2 danaro (the derived forms are very numerous) ; 
barbasso, from verbasco, with analogy of barba ; 3 magrana, for 
(e)micrania; tanaglia, from tenacula; veleno and veneno; 
leggiero; medesimo, for midesimo; rognone, from ren-ione-; 4 
popone, for pepone (but perhaps this irregularity is due to 
labialization); uguagliare, uguale; 5 6 ugiulare, from ejulare;® 
Greek ri0u/xaAA , Latin tithymallu- a plant, >titimalo, titi- 
maglio, totomaglio, 7 tutumaglio, turtumaglio; segreto, for 
sigreto (unless a learned or dialectic word) ; zanzara, from 
zinz-ula with change of suffix; 8 stripicciare (15th century and 
mod. illit.), for stropicciare; and apparently masagio, for 
mesagio, misagio, =“disagio.” 9 
27. Confusion of Prefix. —These are cases where a prefix 
has intruded itself into a word analogically in the place of an¬ 
other prefix or in the place of another more or less similar 
initial syllable. 
(a) Intrusion of Ad-: afficacia (efficacia) ; assaggiare 
(<Exaoiu- 1 ) ; asciguare (<*exsucare) ; asciolta (Orl. Fur., 
<exsolvere) : amendare, etc. (in the sense of emendare, etc.) ; 
2. Cf. Spanish merganser, from mergus-anser, Port, margulhao; but 
see Flechia, AG II 364, and M.-L., Ital. Gram., §135. 
3. See Salvioni, Postille, 23, and Nigra, AG XV 118. 
4. Cf. Grober, ALL V 236. 
5. Cf. uguanno, §66. 
6. See Caix, Studi, No. 646; in Petrocchi the form is uggiolare, pres¬ 
ent uggiolo, —‘della voce lamentevole del cane.” 
7. By labialization, I < O before M. 
8. Zenzala (14th century), zenzara (15th), etc. cf., also Caix, Studi, 
263. 
9. In Dodici Conti Morali, ed. Zambrini: trans. from French (?) ca. 
1200, by a Sienese. See ZRPh I 365. Vowel dissimilation seems to 
be present in taddeo (peasant word), for Teddeum; perhaps the name 
Taddeo was of influence. Perhaps such words as nemico, felice, des- 
tino, vescica are also cases of dissimilation; cf. §20, note 7. Why 
should scholars insist upon seeing a peculiarly Sienese form in 
danaro? Sienese had a fondness for A in the initial syllable, to be 
sure, but so have other dialects: -cf. spacefico, ialsera (for iarsera, for 
iersera) at Pisa (Pieri, AG XII 144), sanatore, dalfino, Piamonte, 
stianella (=‘‘dolor di schiena”) at Lucca (Salvioni, AG XVI, p. 401). 
Danaro is purely vowel harmony and belongs to Florence as much as 
to Siena. Other cases of vowel harmony not Florentine are: boroviere 
(=berroviere), stianale (=schienale), at Lucca (Pieri, AG XII 114); 
rocordai (Barbi, in the Raccolta D’Ancona), at Pisa-Lucca: sgrotolare 
(Pieri, AG XII 114), and sokondo (Pistoia; in a document of 1259,— 
see Berlan, Prop. IX) 
527. Note 1. Saggio, eaggiare, are aphetic. 
