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for profondo, perfondo) ; gogna, from (?) vergogna 17 ; Gegia, 
for Teresa 18 ; Memo, for Girolamo; Vestro, for Silvestro; 
Toro, for Ettore (by analogy of toro (?) also) ; Cola, for Nic- 
cola,; gnorsi, gnorno, for signore si, etc.; gna (illit.), for biso- 
gna 19 ; Nando, for Ferdinando; derivieni and dirivieni, for 
andirivieni. 
31. Metathesis.— -Ligurinu-, that is, “a bird from Li¬ 
guria”, produced, by metathesis of tbe I and U, lugherino, 
whence lucherino (mod.) and locorino (at Lucca) ; ligusticu- 
developed apparently to liustico> luistico> luvistico> ruvis- 
tico, and rovistico (by analogy of rubo, rovo ?),—the forms lui- 
stico, ruistico, ruvistico, rovistico are found 1 . 
32. Agglutination'. —A, from the definite or indefinite 
feminine singular article, became attached to the following 
words: ancudine, from (il)la incudine; anguinaia, from *in- 
guinaria, from inguen; arete, for rete; aringhiera, for rin- 
ghiera, = “bigoncia 1 . 
33. Syncope. —Scure, from Latin secure- (securis) ; tre- 
moto, for terremoto (terrae motu-), t’remoto, with analogy of 
tremare; frasca, from *<virasca (from virere) ; pricolo, etc., 
for pericolo; stu (in Ciacco,-see Monaci, p. 273, line 15; even 
istu is found), for se tu, “if thou”; staccio, from setaceu- 1 ; 
sprementare and sprimentare, for (e)sperimentare; tremen- 
17. See Marchesini, Stndi di filol. rom., II 5: “ . . . notisl 
come in molte citta la gogna sia detta . . . ‘pietra della ver¬ 
gogna’”; Canello, AG III 342, 295. ‘‘II toscano comnne sguerguenza 
. . . verra dalla stessa base, ma attraversoi lo sp. verguenza.” 
18. Gegia, from a form Teregia, by a kind of childish reduplication 
of the' last syllable, -cf. Momo, from Girolamo, French Nana, from 
Anna, etc. 
19. Cf. the expression ‘‘a voler che il mento balli, alle man gna far i 
caili;” gna is perhaps a reduction from bigna, —see §33. 
§31. Note 1. An odd metathesis, which does not disturb the vowels, 
is apparent in trec'folo (mod. pop.), for cetriolo, and empitella, for 
nepitella, from Latin nepeta. 
§32. Note 1. Agglutination not perversive of the initial vowel oc¬ 
curs in the following words: (a) with the definite article: letichetta 
(mod. illit.) listessamente' (illit. and peasant); Lisabella (illit.); lit- 
terizia, for itterizia; possibly iddio; (b) with the indefinite article: nin- 
ferno (in the old writes passim), from un inferno (or in inferno): 
nebbio, from Latin ebulu-; nemolo, from un emolo. Cf. also §2, note 
20 . 
§33. Note 1. See Canello, AG III 348, Grober, ALL V 467. 
